Drain plug magnet

[sfwjesse]

Ok i pulled the drain plug from my "new" 93 ranger 4.0 5spd i just bought for 600 bucks, and noticed a nice "thistle" looking pattern of metal particles, in the shape of the magnetic field of the plug magnet. I wiped it off and basically it was just a sludge of metal dust.

The truck has 118k on it, and i assume the tranny fluid has never been changed. Are these shavings normal? Does that mean the previous owner ground gears like crazy?

I pulled the pan on my 88 BII automatic tranny a while ago and noticed metal dust in the bottom of the pan as well. Is it just normal wear?

 

[JohnnyO]

That's normal, I wouldn't worry about it. Just clean it off and refill it. Some manual trannys take gear lube and some use ATF, so make sure you're putting in the right one.

 

[04 EDGE]

his uses ATF

 

[AllanD]

If you run the trans another 6months or so and get an identical ammount of metal
or ANY chips that you can feel when rubbed between your fingers... THEN
you can worry.

a NEW transmission actually makes quite a bt of metal.

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