Mystery Part in Transmission Pan

[jshcobra]

Well, technically this is a question related to my 68 cougar, not my Ghia, but I'm confident II folks are smarter than the 5.0 crowd simply because they own II's. Anyway, I'm in the process of doing an AOD swap and when I pulled the pan off the AOD tonight, I found a small, tan, plastic mushroom-shaped part just lying around in the pan. It's about an inch and a half long, half inch in diameter and has an o-ring around the mushroom head part. The "stem" part is about an inch long and about quarter inch in diameter.

Any ideas what this is and where it should really live inside the tranny?

 

[THE COBRAMAN]

In the trash can. It's the dipstick tube plug. When they install the dipstick after the engine/trans is installed on the assembly line, it gets pushed into the pan.

 

[cobraii351]

In the trash can. It's the dipstick tube plug. When they install the dipstick after the engine/trans is installed on the assembly line, it gets pushed into the pan.

What he said.

Tim

 

[jshcobra]

Thanks guys. Someone should sue Ford over that for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

 

[itsaMustangtoo]

It is called the lollypop in some circles. Also , you know the pan has not been off since new!