Hello everyone I am switching tranys c4. The trany that I am putting in when I took the pan off to put a new filter in I discovered a foreign part. It is plastic and has a ball on one end with a rubber seal around it in a rail connected to it has a tube extended about 1.5 inches. This is solid and does not have a hole through it. I believe that it is just something that was left by mistake by the factory it does not fit in any hole. If it was a magnetic I would understand but I am confused. Please help I will be gone for a couple hours but will return to see some of your help and respond then. Thanks for your help.. Dean
I think someone else found one of these before a couple of years ago. turned out to be a plug they put in the dipstick hole in the factory to keep the junk out before it had a tube in it.
I am glad to hear that. Mine came out and went into the garbage, because I couldn't find any logical place where it would fit. It was floating in the bottom of the trans pan, with no place where it looked like it belong. Trans has worked fine the past 5000 miles without it.
Hey guys thanks alot that sounds like the logical explanitation to me. I was hopeing that was the problem. Thanks for your help, hopefully I and contribute to this site someday. Dean
That is exactly what that part is. When the dipstick tube is put in for the first time it pushes the plastic plug out into the pan where all it does is just lay there and does no harm.
You would think that the manufacturing site would be kinda clean, not worrying that 1/4" chunks of metal would just happen to fall into the dipstick tube... I guess that I was the first one to change the trans fluid and filter, since I found "the plug". Good thing it only had 50,000 miles on it. I would hate to find that on a motor/trans with 120,000 miles
My '86 Cougar still had it in the pan with 100,000 miles on it, '84 T-Bird with 55,000 miles and '81 Granada with 60,000 miles. First time was with the Bird, had me going at first. What really got me was one day at work going around to different repair shops I had a mechanical shop stating they needed to replace the tranny in a '90 T-Bird SC and showed me this piece. Knowing what this piece was I asked the mechanic if he knew which "part it was". He stated he didn't know but it was laying in the bottom of the pan so it couldn't be good. With the owner of the vehicle present I gave them both a full explanation of what this "part" was. The mechanic then persued to try and get me into adjusting the ft.wheel bearings, good grief! At this time I think the owner of the vehicle was ready to take the Bird to a different repair shop.
so that means that the tranny has NEVER been rebuilt since the manufactured date.....thats a long lasting tranny,....and i guess if you find a tranny with the plug in, you can be happy to know that it hasnt been beat up and rebuilt before...
