WTF is is this thing!!

Trippen Out

Trippen Out

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first off let me apologize by putting this thread here. i just happen to trust my fellow mark friends when it comes to good info. anyway can anyone identify what this part is and where it goes. all i can tell you is it fell out of a transmission on a 2002 mustang. thanks in advance.

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Its put in the trans tube hole to keep dust and dirt from getting in the trans while in transport to the factory, when the factory recives it they push the dip stick tube in and push that plug into the pan. Its nothing to be worried about.
 
yea i saw your message. if we can verify that this thing isnt needed then i dont see any reason not to send it out to ya. ill get back to ya on the results
 
Im 110.999% sure thats what it is. Just try and put it back into the hole and then press the dip stick tube in, the plug will fall out.
 
It's good and bad. Good- it won't be goin back in, unless you think there should be something rattling around in the pan. BAD- You're pan has never been dropped before.
 
well i hope ya guys are cuz he already put the it back together and is filling it full of fluid. we couldnt get a good luck to even see the dipstick hole the car wasnt jacked up high enough really see. so we can only hope. anyway jr if you want to pm me the address ill mail that out to ya on friday.
 
What they said. ^^^^^^

Nothing more than a disposable bung. Mark VIII's had them, too. (the question has come up before)

Straight out of our tech section: (http://www.lincolnvscadillac.com/tech/lincoln-mark-viii/Transmission-Filter-Change/index.htm)

If you find a little plastic plug with a rubber o-ring, don't worry, this was in the dipstick tube while the engine was assembled on the assembly line and falls into the transmission pan. It's not a broken or missing part! Discard it or keep it as a souvenier.
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Same thing happened to me when I was changing the trans fluid in my mom's 1997 30th Anniversary Cougar a couple of years ago. That thing was in the pan and I didn't know what it was. Ended up calling my local Ford dealer who told me what it was. The bad thing was that the car had 100K miles on it and the pan had never been down, yet my parents had paid a local dealership over $100 bucks to change the trans fluid and filter about six months earlier. That ticked me off. Unfortunately, they didn't have the receipt or we could have gone and raised some hell.:D
 
Or they just left it in the pan. Probably not, but you would have no way to prove otherwise.
 
thaywood said:
Same thing happened to me when I was changing the trans fluid in my mom's 1997 30th Anniversary Cougar a couple of years ago. That thing was in the pan and I didn't know what it was. Ended up calling my local Ford dealer who told me what it was. The bad thing was that the car had 100K miles on it and the pan had never been down, yet my parents had paid a local dealership over $100 bucks to change the trans fluid and filter about six months earlier. That ticked me off. Unfortunately, they didn't have the receipt or we could have gone and raised some hell.:D
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They do have machines that can change the fluid without dropping the pan, almost all dealerships have them,but regardless the pan should have been dropped to change the filter if it was requested. If you tell a shop to change the trans fluid thats all they will do, if you tell them to change fluid and filter they do that. Most shops and dealerships around here are like that.
 
It's entirely possible that a tech did do the requested things and genuinely didn't know what that was, so left it in. (unlikely, but possible)
 
Possible. But when I took the pan down, it really didn't look like the bolts or gasket had ever been touched. And the fluid didn't look very good either. And there was a LOT of powdered metal accumulated around that little donut magnet. I doubt it was touched. But I don't know for sure. I know that I changed the fluid and filter and cleaned out the inside of the pan and it shifted a whole lot better when I was done. That is precicesly why I refuse to pay somebody else to change my oil or tranny fluid. I don't trust mechanics. No offense to any mechanics here (I used to be one myself, BTW). I only take my vehicles to a shop when absolutely necessary. Any time I can do the work myself, I will. Now I know there are those who are not mechanically inclined who don't have any choice but to get a shop to do their work. And that's fine. I just hate to see dealerships or garages $hit folks who don't know the in's and out's of mechanic work.
 
Yeah its there for assembly purposes..your not the first to ask, ive seen it come up on numerous boards. ;)
 
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