When I said grab some old manuals I really meant old as in “1970s” and “1980s”.
I have worked - minor stuff - not overhauls - on many cars in my life and back then ran across quite a few that treated the engine capacity and dipstick as quarts and the transmission capacity as pints or pints/quarts and the dipstick as pints. Liter’s is another word you’ll see.
It didn’t matter whether foreign or domestic...it popped up often on both.
Back in those days it wasn’t uncommon for a newbie to overfill a transmission because they forgot to check the computer manual or the car manual to see whether the dipstick measured pints or quarts. A turkey baster with hose would solve the problem quick - mess free.
I could be wrong but my brain is thinking that my 1987 Hyundai Excel and my 1977 Honda Accord were pints/quarts with a dipstick that measured pints.
It’s been awhile...
=8-)
“I have worked - minor stuff - not overhauls - on many cars in my life”
I have worked on...errr...major stuff...and often.
Now I’m just having fun...that 2008 Tacoma you changed the fluid on....when you looked in your owner manual, it listed this information: the 4 speed takes 2.1 quarts and the 5 speed takes 3.2 quarts:
http://www.toyota.com/t3Portal/document/om/OM35898U/pdf/8_1.pdf
So yes, as inconsequential as this is, I will continue to use quarts when describing the capacity of a transmission - this way I will match everybody else in the world.