Different plug?
K-P Garage said:
Just had the transaxle plug out and it is different. It has large filter screen on it 2-3" in length and magnet in the center. Did you take that off for the picture? Thanks, KO
UPDATE Thanks to KO for questioning this. There is a magnetic drain
plug that is located on the passenger side of the transaxle.
Here is an image of the transaxle filter plug that KO was commenting about. I have ultrasonically cleaned it prior to reinstalling it:
Here is the corrected diagram which shows the relative position of the filter, drain and fill plugs for the Ricardo transaxle:
GTsaver's
production magnetic
fill and
drain plugs have a much stronger magnetic field compared to the stock GT magnetic
drain plug.
This was a sample of some of the junk that it had trapped while just driving about 50 miles. Since this is the fill plug (not the drain plug), it was merely picking up debris from oil just splashing around with the transaxle. This can be removed at anytime without losing any oil. I would expect that anyone that installs one of these will have the same results. Note the smooth looking paste around the outside which are microscopic silt like particles. The larger metal particles are retained in the central region of the magnet. I am going to clean this and remove again in about another 50 miles:
After 40 more miles, note that there is much less debris:
The
drain plug on right, is now completed and the results are very impressive. It seems to work best at trapping very fine "silt-like" particles. The
fill plug on the left is more efficient at trapping medium to larger sized particles:
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Jay
