10-12-13, 03:22 PM
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Hey gang.
Down to the last few bolts pulling my 727 from the car. I had the pan off to drain, then put the pan back on to catch the drips until it was ready to lower it. I pulled the pan one last time and it only had a few ounces in the pan. Dumped it out and went over the tranny flange with a scraper one last time using gravity to let the junk fall.
To my surprise.... there is another hole.... holly crap. its next to the dipstick. Omg the area of leakage.
I poked and probed this hole in the flange by the dipstick.
It goes up and thru. packed with dirt and sand and crud.
After the clean-up? Its a no brainer. One of the 1/4 pipe plugs was missing. Fluid was seeping between the gasket and up that crud filled hole. I never noticed it and I would not have noticed the plug missing because the exhaust pipe runs right next to the tranny.
I ran a 1/4 tap. cleaned the threads and ran a 1/4 x 1/2 bolt from the top down using tread lock gel. Then filled up the bottom void with RTV.
Hey gang.
Down to the last few bolts pulling my 727 from the car. I had the pan off to drain, then put the pan back on to catch the drips until it was ready to lower it. I pulled the pan one last time and it only had a few ounces in the pan. Dumped it out and went over the tranny flange with a scraper one last time using gravity to let the junk fall.
To my surprise.... there is another hole.... holly crap. its next to the dipstick. Omg the area of leakage.
I poked and probed this hole in the flange by the dipstick.
It goes up and thru. packed with dirt and sand and crud.
After the clean-up? Its a no brainer. One of the 1/4 pipe plugs was missing. Fluid was seeping between the gasket and up that crud filled hole. I never noticed it and I would not have noticed the plug missing because the exhaust pipe runs right next to the tranny.
I ran a 1/4 tap. cleaned the threads and ran a 1/4 x 1/2 bolt from the top down using tread lock gel. Then filled up the bottom void with RTV.
