Well I think I found some bits of 4th gear, some gaskets, maybe a cricket or two and some other bits.
there were very few metallic flakes, nothing magnetic that I could tell, some very hard black chips and some smaller not so hard ones, you could grind them into dust with finger pressure. There was a little glitter to the transmission fluid but not much at all. The screen had a fair bit of debris and there was some near the screen, that was a real bear to clean out, nothing would stick to the magnet so a finger followed by a paper towel wound around the end of a screwdriver, push and wiggle and turn to get more bits out, then added a half gallon and let it wash some more out the hole. The intake screen was cleaned and brushed and prodded and cleaned again, new filter and 4 gallons of fluid added.
The report on the transmission fluid from Blackstone wasn't bad, but next to new fluid it sure looked dirty!
Thankfully it doesn't take much fluid to change it and hopefully it'll last a good long time! Looks like fun to change a transmission! Park it over a big hole in the ground and undo all the bolts!
there were very few metallic flakes, nothing magnetic that I could tell, some very hard black chips and some smaller not so hard ones, you could grind them into dust with finger pressure. There was a little glitter to the transmission fluid but not much at all. The screen had a fair bit of debris and there was some near the screen, that was a real bear to clean out, nothing would stick to the magnet so a finger followed by a paper towel wound around the end of a screwdriver, push and wiggle and turn to get more bits out, then added a half gallon and let it wash some more out the hole. The intake screen was cleaned and brushed and prodded and cleaned again, new filter and 4 gallons of fluid added.
The report on the transmission fluid from Blackstone wasn't bad, but next to new fluid it sure looked dirty!
Thankfully it doesn't take much fluid to change it and hopefully it'll last a good long time! Looks like fun to change a transmission! Park it over a big hole in the ground and undo all the bolts!