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Accidentally dropped the tip of Lucas oil tx. bottle into 5 speed transmission...now what?


1999Mazda Central Florida

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Vehicle Year
1999
Engine
2.3 (4 Cylinder)
Transmission
Manual
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Michelin LTX M/S P235-75R15
A simple job turned bad...I was testing the angle so as I could pour some Lucas tx. into 5 speed transmission ('99 Mazda B2500,)
and accidentally dropped the cone shaped plastic cap (about half inch) into the gear case housing. It had been drained already and I was
ready to refill when it happened.

Things done:
1) I tried blowing air in (fill hole) while vacuuming air out (drain hole) to hopefully pull it out with air/vacuum, but no luck.
2) Tried to visualize it...can't see it. I'm awaiting a bore-scope from a friend<--Upadate: could not locate it..very limit view even with bore-scope
3) Tried refilling and draining again X3 (and going through gears to jostle it loose I hoped) so it will flow out with the used oil.

Question....will I damage the gears if I run it with the plastic cap in there?
Thanks for any help...a bit of an emergency on this easy job gone wrong.

UPDATE (Nov. 24-2019) looks like no issues so far with cap gobbling gears. Thanks for all advice...really helps. I'll probably replace the fluid again soon though to get the plastic out
(making sure to put the fill plug not too tight...sorry about that 91 Stranger:cautious: )
I attached a pic of what my drain plug looked like with metal shavings (I suspect that's pretty normal as long as no major metal pieces on the magnetized drain bolt.)
 

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Im gonna guess i would just run it 100 miles or so, drain, and refill. The gears are gonna make mince meat of that plastic cap pretty quick
 
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it enough to tear the trans out. Maybe do like Rusty said, fill with some cheap fluid and run it 100 miles or so, then change it out for the good stuff.
 
Im gonna guess i would just run it 100 miles or so, drain, and refill. The gears are gonna make mince meat of that plastic cap pretty quick
Thank you sir for replying! I've been trying to drain it out (over and over, but it's in there...probably wedged in between some gears.)
I appreciate any more replies...
 
I don't think you will be able to drain it out. Just let it get obliterated and swap the fluid.
 
yeah..........my trans would just be enjoying it.....gobble gobble nom nom nom nom......burp......gobble gobble nom nomnom nom....
 
Imagine tossing a Christmas ham into a wood chipper.

'sall good.
 
There's no pump or anything to clog...

steel gears > plastic cap
 
This sounds like something that would happen to me. I screwed myself recently when I drained the rear diff before I had the fill plug out. Welllllllll….. Get the diff cover back on with blue RTV and realize the fill plug is rusted out and stripped. So I had to remove said diff cover and clean off the tons of blue RTV I just put on. Got a cheap fill plug, drilled the hole and put it back on. Honestly something I'll probably do in the future as its a simple finger tight fill plug.
 

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