Hi everyone — quick question: can someone confirm where the transmission fill plug is located and, if possible, share a photo of it? I’m trying to verify whether the plug I’m looking at is the transmission fluid fill plug (or if it’s actually a fuel plug / something else). Thanks!
From reading through attached, looks like fill and drain bolts for the transaxle are socket head cap screw style (female), with recess for 10 mm hex driver. Info:
Nice bolt head - how about a zoom out picture so we can get an idea of the location of that bolt? FWIW; the fill plug is next the output CV shaft.
TE means that the transaxle uses TE fluid. Evidently, the drain plug was upgraded on the OP's vehicle to make sure that the technician knows that the transaxle uses TE fluid and not the previously used WS fluid in earlier models.
Here’s a screen grab from my previous attachment, showing fill and drain bolt locations. No mention, but the views are apparently different, so seems like the two bolts are not on the same face. typical terse/cryptic Toyota repair manual style btw.
Sorry for the confusion. I meant fill plug. The drain plug is the one with the 10mm hex socket. The plug marked TE is apparently the fill plug. Both, however, are still an M18x1.5 thread pitch. If it was my car, I would replace t h e drain plug with a widely available M18x1.5 aluminum magnetic drain plug.
The TE marking is the giveaway, since TE fluid is the current standard for the Gen 5 transaxle. I conject that Toyota had an issue of service technicians assuming that Gen 5 transaxles were an extrapolation of the WS standard used in most all Toyotas over the past 20 years. Probably due to continuing mistakes with Gen 5 transaxles being filled with WS, Toyota decided to issue the TE marked fill plug. When Toyota went to CVT transaxles, they began to mark the transaxle fill plugs with FE to insure that the servicing technician is not to use WS. Technicians noted in many many videos in CVT service on Toyotas with an FE marked fill plug used a 24mm hex socket. That being, it would almost assured that the 24mm socket would be the standard on the TE fill plug.
