tranny cover with a dran plug
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Plugs are handy - B&M ( and a bazillion other vendors) make a handy little kit - that includes sealing washers. Drilling for a bolt can work, but your sealing surface becomes the ouside surface of the pan so ... some sort of complaint washer (soft copper, T-0 aluminum, etc) will be required to seal.
I find the drain really helps reduce the ATF showers so common to filter changes... :) (good thing; do it - get a good 360* weld into a flat cleaned area of your pan)
I find the drain really helps reduce the ATF showers so common to filter changes... :) (good thing; do it - get a good 360* weld into a flat cleaned area of your pan)
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You must be planning on just draining it, and not putting any back in.....DUH
You don't have to open the hood to get to the cooler lines, anyhow. But I suggest putting new ATF back in, using the dipstick tube,
which you have to open the hood to do.
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Please do a write up for us on how to fill the transmission without opening the hood. We can submit it to ford and they can save a ton of time filling it with the hood closed!
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It is definitely nice to pull the plug and let the valve body drip off for a few hours before dropping the pan to change the filter.
Having said that, it is still questionable to me whether or not this mod is really worth it. I'd say that it depends on how long you plan to own the vehicle and how many times you think the fluid will be changed.
Let's say that you buy a truck that you plan to drive 100,000 miles and use a 30,000 mile change interval for the transmission fluid. You'd only get to use the drain plug twice at 60K and 90K, assuming that the plug was installed at the first 30K change. The 2 slightly less messy fluid changes might not justify the extra work of installing the plug.
In the case of a new truck, there's also the powertrain warranty to consider - currently 5 yr/60,000 mi or more. Drive into a dealer with a transmission complaint and a modified pan and see how far you get.
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Plugs are handy - B&M ( and a bazillion other vendors) make a handy little kit - that includes sealing washers. Drilling for a bolt can work, but your sealing surface becomes the ouside surface of the pan so ... some sort of complaint washer (soft copper, T-0 aluminum, etc) will be required to seal.
I find the drain really helps reduce the ATF showers so common to filter changes... :) (good thing; do it - get a good 360* weld into a flat cleaned area of your pan)
I find the drain really helps reduce the ATF showers so common to filter changes... :) (good thing; do it - get a good 360* weld into a flat cleaned area of your pan)