Pull the pan and found metal

[VEfreak]

Check my tranny fluid the other day, seemed kinda crispy so i decided to change it and the filter. Drained the tranny, which was sweet and easy since my pan has a drain plug. pulled the pan and found the filter screen was ripped, i didn't like that. But what i found in the pan was even more disturbing. About a table spoon in a half of metal sludge, with some shavings. Not many shavings, only some. But that seems like an excessive amount of sludge, should i go into red alert?

Also i would like to know if the front and rear bands are the same, and if a rigid carbon fiber intermediate band is a good choice. It's 10% wider than stock. I can't really make sense of PATC. they have flex bands, rigid bands, front bands, and low/reverse bands. as far as i know, there are only two bands in these trannies.

[mprmn08]

if its a new tranny and the first time you've had the pan off since then thats normal. the ripped filter may not be good as some may have made its way around but the shavings arent necessarily a bad thing.

[VEfreak]

thanks, that takes some stress off of me. And i found a good article on bands and all the different lingo for em, so i got that figured out now too.

[nojackwayne]

thanks, that takes some stress off of me. And i found a good article on bands and all the different lingo for em, so i got that figured out now too.

Do you have link for that article?

[VEfreak]

Here you go.

http://joelsgarage.blogspot.com/2008/02 ... bands.html

[VEfreak]

i was looking at the band adjusters. They're not a hex head, they're square. Is there some kind of specialty tool used to adjust them?

[PToombs]

12 point socket usually works good.

[VEfreak]

thanks