Yes, changing the filter too is important, but if you drain the pan through
a plug before dropping the pan, it's a lot less messy and easier.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On Behalf Of Mike Sykes
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 10:52 AM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Re: 45RFE trans pan, welding in a drain plug.
>>Not having a drain plug in a trans pan is stupid to me, always will be.
Its fluid you have to change, why not make it accessible to do so without
all that mess?. I only do it every so often, Those who do it for their job,
It would make me wanna climb that Texas Tower.....<<
there's no drain plug becuase you're supposed to change the filter when you
change the fluid, which requires dropping the pan. You're supposed to change
the cooler return line filter every 60k miles, which also requires pan
removal. Also, there is a magnet on the pan that needs to get cleaned off of
any metal shavings, otherwise the shavings will go back into the
transmission and cause damage. Well... there really should be any metal
shavings on the magnet... but you'll never know unless you drop the pan,
which is the whole point of dropping the pan...
Drop that Pan!! =)
-miggity
2000 CC FR R/T
MP PCM, K&N FIPK complete with cracked tube
14.88@92.5 mph
mods sitting in boxes - 4.56 gear, m1, headers, exhuast, 52mm tb.... any
volunteers to help install?
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