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If any of you have purchased an ULTRA-POWER 265831 oil pan from RockAuto (the one with a drain plug) for a Ranger I would highly encourage you to go out and pull it to see if the paint on the inside is peeling off. I put one of these on my wife's truck in 2020 and pulled the transmission yesterday to have it rebuilt (unrelated to this issue) and you can imagine my shock when this started oozing out of the drain plug hole:
Yeah, that's paint, or powder coating from the INSIDE of the pan. I did install this 4 years ago but it only got driven about 500 miles after that. The transmission fluid just peeled the paint right off in big sheets. I don't think any of it got past the filter but obviously this is a pretty major issue.
What did the pan look like? Well:
Yeah, that's paint, or powder coating from the INSIDE of the pan. I did install this 4 years ago but it only got driven about 500 miles after that. The transmission fluid just peeled the paint right off in big sheets. I don't think any of it got past the filter but obviously this is a pretty major issue.
What did the pan look like? Well: