TH400 Joke or major issue?

[kallisti5]

Transmission in my 86 K5 (CUCV) has a minor leak, spent a bit of time pulling the pan to swap the gaskets + change the filter, etc.

Looked at the magnet for filings, and there's a whole damn bushing stuck to it :-O No damage to bushing, no large metal particles, etc. Transmission seems to operate otherwise normally.

The bushing is exactly 1/2" OD. Any ideas where it came from? Maybe a bad joke by the last person to work on it?

 

[kallisti5]

Here's a cleaned up picture which might help more than the ATF coated pictures :-)

 

[Fastereddie]

Looks like a dang shock bushing sleeve.

 

[kallisti5]

Looks like a dang shock bushing sleeve.

I really hope this is true :-) Had me watching teardown videos of the TH400 to see if it matches anything lol.

 

[nvrenuf]

@Greg Ducato

 

[nvrenuf]

Isn’t there a tubing spacer on the filter bolt?

 

[sweetk30]

Isn’t there a tubing spacer on the filter bolt?

x2 what i am thinking .

 

[kallisti5]

haha, so likely a joke I played on myself... Got it :-) Thinking back the filter was rigid... which wouldn't be true unless there was a spacer on the bolt.

Getting a new pan with a drain plug, I blame the "controlled spill" for making me miss it falling.
Twenty bucks, can't beat that:
http://www.jegs.com/i/JEGS/555/601184/10002/-1

Thanks!

 

[sweetk30]

skip the china tin pans and go aluminum and a lube locker gasket .

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-433884/overview/

and if all you want is a drain plug then do this .

https://www.summitracing.com/parts/bmm-80250/overview/