All you have to do is take of the bell's, depending on your year it should be 4 or 3 screws holding the bell's on, then carefully pull the piston out, You don't want to bend or damage the needle, poor the oil out of the middle shaft, put the piston back in very carefully so you don't screw up the needle, put the bell back on and fill with oil, I use Auto trans fluid which should be about SAE20 and it works fine for me. You don't necessarily have to take it all apart and drain the old oil, you could just top it off, but if you want to change the viscosity or just have new oil in the pistons then I would do it like I explained.
Is there a difference in resistance when you push the piston up? if it's low on fluid it will be easier to push up and vice versa.