Tranny Fill Plug Question - Help
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Last night I drained my old tranny fluid and was replacing with the Redline MTL. I pulled a novice mistake and didnt take a 'before' pic. I put the drain plug back in just fine and tightened down snugly, but when using my hands to replace fill plug, it got tight only like half-way in (thread wise), as in half my threads were still out. So I wrenched on it a little bit but it was not budging.
Do you guys know if it's supposed to hang out like this? Thanks https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1361296789 |
It's a pipe thread.
Take it out, put some pipe thread sealant on it, screw it back in by hand and then finish with a wrench so it's nice and snug. Done. |
next time you plug a tranny, make sure to lube up and always tip
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did you take some of that tranny's fluid on your chest?
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5 star thread :laugh:
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Originally Posted by Dustin
(Post 980667)
I pulled a novice mistake and didnt take a 'before' pic.
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The "after" pics are much more popular on the internet.
(OP, it's a tapered pipe thread, so that's normal.) |
Usually I bottom out when plugging a tranny. You've got nothing to worry about with only half your plug going in, yours is wider at the base(tapered thread). ;)
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In for Lady Chablis.
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Sometimes I am happy when I wander in to threads I don't think relate to me, like the TF2 thread or some cat thread that had a picture of someone's wife or girlfriend in it.
Then threads like this happen. :ugh: |
Originally Posted by hornetball
(Post 980673)
It's a pipe thread.
Take it out, put some pipe thread sealant on it, screw it back in by hand and then finish with a wrench so it's nice and snug. Done. |
Originally Posted by Savington
(Post 980750)
The "after" pics are much more popular on the internet.
(OP, it's a tapered pipe thread, so that's normal.) To all the rest, glad you got a good laugh!! lol. After I reread it was pretty funny. Thanks guys! |
Originally Posted by shuiend
(Post 980845)
That plug does not need any sort of sealant on it. It also looks to be in properly.
Thanks for clearing that up. |
Originally Posted by Dustin
(Post 980948)
The guy that helped me yesterday put in the new fluid was not following the previous post of putting sealant on it, either.
Using thread sealant isn't required, but it's not a bad practice. I always use some on pipe threads. |
Originally Posted by hornetball
(Post 980987)
Are you sure? What's the white stuff in the threads and smudged on the side of the tranny in your picture?
Using thread sealant isn't required, but it's not a bad practice. I always use some on pipe threads. |
Originally Posted by 18psi
(Post 981004)
that's semen
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Originally Posted by hornetball
(Post 981025)
An excellent thread sealer.
On a srs note it looks like someone got a little too carried away with the wrench and messed up the plug and hit the trans making score marks on it. Also why you using MTL in the trans and not MT90? Back to your original question all the the miata plugs I've seen look like that. |
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