Found mushroom in tranny pan
 

My 95 F150 E4OD with 60,000 miles started to shudder about 56,000 miles.

Used the recommendation on this web site to drain the pan and TC. It worked like a dream.

I didn't have a helper but it is not a problem to use a 1/2 drive breakover bar with a socket and 6" extension to turn the crankshaft while you watch the TC turn through the inspection hole.

Fluid (original from factory) looked good and smelled good. I hope this change helps.

MY DILEMMA: When I dropped the pan there, laying loose in the pan, was a white plastic mushroom with an O-ring around the body of the mushroom. The stem is about 1 inch long and 1/8 in diameter. The mushroom body is about 3/4" in diameter and 5/8" tall.

Needless to say, I just fastened the pan back loosely and called a halt to the procedure until I find out where the mushroom came from.

HELP:mad:

Yardbrew

If memeory serves correctly, and I will be corrected if I am wrong, that is put there by the factory during assembly and is supposed to drop in the pan when the truck is in use, just like you found it. you just throw it away when changing the fluid.

i think it was to keep dirt and stuff out of the tranny while it was being assembled.

HI!... Don't worry it's just a plug for the dipstick tube port. At the factory when they insert the dipstick tube they simple use the tube to push that plug into the tranny pan. It's garbage. Just throw it out.

Drug smugglers hid mushrooms in your pan at the factory. ER ... no wait that's not it. I agree normal.

That thing just seals the hole while the trans waits to get put in a truck.

That is how I know my friends F250 had the orginal fluid at 160,000 miles.

Wow!!!

Thanks to you guru's.

I can sleep easier tonight. Tomorrow, will put it back together and hope that the shudder goes away. :) :) :)

I'll post the results here.

Yardbrew

At the factory we call it the "Lolipop".

G

Have driven about 150 miles since the transmission fluid change.

The transmission shudder is gone!!!

However,

I am EMBARRASSED !!!

Had I bothered to read ALL of the instructions concerning transmission fluid and filter change that is provided on this very web site, I would have read about the plastic mushroom that was rolling around in my tranny pan.

Fortunately, there is not a smilie for STUPID. :(

Yardbrew

LOL...
 

I know I know, this is a Truck forum...but I can share that I too spent the better half of a day trying to figure out where that white plastic thing came from in my Grand Marquis when I changed the oil.
Was relieved as all hell to find out it was a plug knocked out
by the dipsticked.