I need some help identifying what these bolts are for. If you go to the 4th page you will see me circle the ones I suspect could be what I'm looking for in red. I'm trying to learn how to do an ATF fluid drain & fill, power steering drain & fill, and coolant drain & fill. So the screws I need to locate are the
bleed bolt for the radiator (to release air out)
drain bolt for the automatic transmission fluid
drain bolt for power steering

these pics are taken from my 2001 accord LX V6

here's the photo galllery, just click the image

 

Atf drain and fill the drain bolt is on bottom its the only one with a 3/8 drive square. The fill is on top of the trans it says atf. I think a drain and fill for a v6 is about 3.5 quarts or more.pic of the drain http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...03453110ZAnKLp

The bleed bolt for the radiator is a 14 mm with a little hole in it on the thermostat housing. It looks like you have a v6 so i do not think you have a bleed for the coolant, idle it with the radiator cap off heater on and front end jacked up to purge air add coolant as necessary. The drain for the radiator is a little white wing nut on the bottom of the radiator. Looks like you have a pic of it http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...03453110PMQbYO

P.S. has no drain bolt. You need to suck it out with a vacula. http://www.qualitywholesaletools.com...vac18-0079.jpg

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...03453110lEelYV. One is a coolant block drain bolt the one far back with the little hole in it one is an oil pressure test port and the others are oil galley plugs. Looks like the rest are engine mount bolts and transmission bolts. You can drain your blocks coolant with the one in the back but you will need to bleed the system for a while.

 

Thanks fuse. Just to help me understand everything that you said.
The atf drain is on the bottom with a 3/8 square,

the radiator bleed bolt is the 14mm with a hole in it. it looks like i could just connect a tubing to it and just loosen the top screw part instead of the entire 14mm bolt and that would make it redirect the atf fluid thru the tubing and into a container, is that possible? or do i have to loosen the whole thing and watch the atf fluid get all over me?

I think I read somewhere that this atf will drain 2.6 quarts and that I have to repeat this twice for a total of 3 times.

I'm not sure what you are wanting me to do with the vacula. the rest of the atf fluid from what I read was in the torque converter, there is about 6 quarts total in the system. what is the prcedure for the vacula?

you say i can drain the block's coolant with the previously mentioned 14mm with the tubing connteor looking thing on top of it, but I have to bleed the system a bit. does that mean first I need to unscrew the radiator drain plug, let it all drain, than loosen the block coolant drain, let that all drain out, close the radiator drain, pour new coolant and wait til the block coolant drain has fluid coming out in a stream, close the block drain, and fill radiator from cap til full?

sorry these seem like such mundane questions, I really want to make sure I do this right

-Bruce

 

PS = power steering has no drain plug. You can suck that out with a turkey baster or some such. (Don't ever put it back in the kitchen...)
I've drained the PS fluid by disconnecting a hose to the PS cooler out front of the radiator. It's just a steel tube bent into a big hairpin that you can see thru the grille.

Auto tranny drain/fill only gets about 1/3 of the total fluid. So you drain & fill it a couple times IF it's dirty. Otherwise, you just drain/fill it every 25k miles or whatever interval you like. Pay attention to what drains out so you can decide whether it needs multiple drain/fill cycles.