I'm in the middle of servicing my tranny. Once i took the pan out from under nieth I found this laying in there and no idea where it goes. Please help...

 

I am not 100% sure but I believe that it goes no where....it's just and extra plastic piece laying in the pan from the factory.....I can remember other posts about guys asking the same question about a plastic piece laying in the pan....I think you have nothing to worry about.

 

It goes in the trash.

It's just a dust plug that was used before the tranny was installed in the truck.

Every automatic left the factory with one in the tranny pan.

Steve

 

you have to send it to ford to get the "special prize"

 

The dust plug....thats what it's called, I was trying to think of the name of it but could not come to think of it!

Thanks!

 

Thanks for those quick replies guys, I really appreciated it. I got it all put back together using Mobil 1 full synthetic ATF. That was probably the first time the pan was dropped and the tranny has over 294km (180k miles). Its been flushed regularly though.

 

How did the pan, magnet, and filter look?

 

This was the first one I had ever done but there wasn't much of anything in the bottom of the pan. The magnet had a layer of sludge built around it which was pretty thick and gross. The filter was doing pretty good as well, I blew through both of them (new and old) and there didn't seem to be much a difference between them

 

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That plug looking thing is an **** dilator Ford puts in their so it won't be as difficult when you come in for service and they bend you over.