Found this in my transmission pan

I know that but I not 100% positive (a seniors moment). I'm thinking it's a plug where the dipstick goes and is pushed into the pan during final assembly. I hope you're not suggesting that there are 291k before the first fluid change

looks like a dreidel

Last5.0 said:

looks like a dreidel

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..............*runs to google*................





I can't read Hebrew though...

I had a panic attack when I changed my tranny fluid the first time...

That little thing popped out onto the floor and rolled under a tool box that hadn't been moved in like 10 years (the wheels were broken). So, we unloaded that sucker to get it light enough, jacked it up and sat it on a creeper, and rolled it out of the way. Quite a proud moment when we retrieved that sucker. Then, we spent the better part of half an hour holding it up under the damn tranny trying to figure out where it went and what it was. Finally, out of desperation, we made a call to the local tranny guy...

We described exactly what we had done, and then started to explain what the part looked like, at which point he started laughing...made us feel great! Seems he had pulled an AODE shortly after they were "new" and could not for the life of him figure out where that sucker went. Eventually, the Ford dealer told him to pitch it. He recommended we keep it and put it back in should I ever sell the car so that the next person to work on it also had to try and figure out what is was...

It is a plug. It is put in when the tranny is made, and when the car is assembled, they jam the dipstick tube into place and force that plug out into the pan. Where it sits until some unsuspecting soul finds it rolling around in the catch pan.

Either your tranny fluid has never been changed or they person who changed it put that thing back in there after. My guess is you are, in fact, the first to drop the pan. Which is a little scary...

Toss it. It is worthless.

People think it's funny to put it back in there. With those kind of miles, you know the trans pan has been off.

HISSIN50 said:

People think it's funny to put it back in there. With those kind of miles, you know the trans pan has been off.

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I think it funny too, lol I would put it back.. But yea with that many miles that pan HAS to have been down before.

The fluid could have been changed with one of those machines that hooks up to the trans lines and flushes/fills the tranny fluid. Or someone could have used the chiltons method and just straight drained the tranny by unhooking the line and letting it drain into a pan then refilling it. So its possible the pan has never been off....

SN95StangMan said:

The fluid could have been changed with one of those machines that hooks up to the trans lines and flushes/fills the tranny fluid. Or someone could have used the chiltons method and just straight drained the tranny by unhooking the line and letting it drain into a pan then refilling it. So its possible the pan has never been off....

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I'll bet that leaves a very clogged filter though.

Did the tranny have the original steel core pan gasket? Shops toss those out all the time even though they shouldn't