I'm really glad to hear about the magnets, but I don't know what to think
about "spooge."
Is that another yankee thing like "scrapple?"
Richard in San Antonio
On Wed, 13 May 1998 07:08:30 -0400 Joe Dille <joe@dille.montgomery.pa.us>
wrote:
>Howdy,
>
>FWIW I changed the lube in my '98 5.2l 5-speed tonight to Mobil 1.
>Here
>is what I learned:
>
>The tranny plugs take a 17mm hex to remove them. I made a removal
>tool by
>brazing a M10 nut amd bolt together. Worked like a champ. I was
>prepaired to put a magnet in the drain plug. After removal I saw that
>the stock drain plug has a magnet. After 1084 miles the magnet had
>about
>a 1/4" ball of fuzz on it.
>
>I also had magnets to put in the differential cover. There were seven
>1/4" by 3/16" rare earth disks. I simply epoxied them to the lower
>part
>of the cover where they would not hit anything. When I reached in to
>wipe out the last bit of juice from the main housing I found the stock
>magnet :-) It is an industrial thickness refferigerator magnet on the
>floor of the housing. This had a bunch of black spooge which I was
>able
>to wipe off.
>
>Moral of the story... Both the tranny and differential have magnes in
>them
>from the factory to collect chips.
>
>Drive Safe,
>
>
>
>Joe Dille
>
>Telford PA USA
>(joe@dille.montgomery.pa.us)
>
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