Another Shift Rail Plug Thread

[dorman68]

There are only 3 rubber plugs on this trans that leak. I have done this repair on my old 92 ranger and my recently purchased 93.

 

[Beast]

Rail Plugs

Hey Folks,

Will that Ford part number work with a 92 Ford Ranger XLT 3.0L? I mean I knowhis truck is a 4wd while mine is a 2wd. Could someone let me know. The part number was 1L5Z-7A107-AA.

Thanks,

Beast

 

[dorman68]

1L5Z 7A107-AA will work.

 

[JDB7560]

Hello all. Found this forum while researching this issue.

I have a problem. A few weeks back, I removed these plugs and put some high temperature RTV on them and reinstalled. Well, they recently started to leak again. So I decided just to replace them. But when I tried to remove one of them this time, the outer part just fell apart. So I had nothing really to grab on to with my pliers. I tried a small screwdriver, and lo and behold, I pushed it inside the transmission.

Any suggestions? Did I just create a lot more work?

 

[dorman68]

I think you created more work for yourself. It would bother me a great deal knowing that a piece of the plug is floating around in there, but that's just my perspective. On the other side of the coin there is a good change that the rubber plug piece will be ground up by the moving parts in the trans and cause no harm. If you choose to leave it in I would change the fluid every 1000 miles for the next few thousand miles to flush out the rubber particles.
Hope this helps.

 

[locovaca]

On the other side of the coin there is a good chance that the rubber plug piece will be ground up by the moving parts in the trans and cause oil starvation and other awesome things.

FTFY