Why not add a drain plug on the oil pan??they leave that plug there for u.lol

 

*phew!* Stress level just went way down. Thought for sure I'd have to pull it apart again tomorrow. That's a GOOD sticky.

 

Yep!

 

this thread makes me laugh..

 

I guess more than a couple of us have been stumped by this one! I had to go to two dealers before someone could tell me what it was!!

 

Panic at first when I found this in my pan !!!!

Thanks in advance !!!!

 

I just joined and am glad I found this. I am about to do a fluid change.

 

Well i did a pan drop and filter change tonight on mine 04 f150 fx4 with 104k on it, and to my surprise that stupid plug is still in the pan. All i hope is that somebody just flushed the tranny before i bought it. The transmission seems to shift fine though, but here in a week or so i will flush the rest out through the cooler line.

 

Haha, I remember when I was a kid working in a service station and the station operator(30 yrs experience at that point) did a fluid change on his baby, a '73 Chrysler New Yorker, and found a plug laying in his pan. Fooled him too, guess maybe they had just started using the "plugs"? He called the Chrysler dealer and asked them about it. Fools everyone the first time around I guess.

 

The little plug means that you were the first to pull the pan. I had one in my pan also the first filter change. It is just a factory plug put in the dip stick hole to keep dirt and dust out till the trani is installed and the dip stick tube is installed.

 

No,say it isn't so!

 

Do you always reply to a thread without reading all the posts first?

 

Are you referring to me?

 

lol!!!

 

You want to here something sad ? I just had My tranny rebuilt after 140.000 miles and the mechanic pulled that out of the pan ! Moral pull the pan change the oil every 25,000 do it rite