Cold front is BLOWING thru now with gusts of 40mph. Good thing it's not super cold!
Pulled the tranny pan on the Crown Vic yesterday. I saw something I really didn't want to see. I found the dip stick plug sitting in the pan. This means the pan has never been dropped and filter changed. It's not really much of a filter and that really doesn't concern me that much. I can't see the oil I found to have the miles on the odometer. Still too much red left in it. My hopes are someone just siphoned it out of the pan thru the dipstick and replaced it, instead of dropping the pan.
Pan was clean and the magnet wasn't really super 'fuzzy' with junk.
Sure took the air from my sails yesterday, and I just left the car on the lift with everything cleaned and ready to assemble. I'll put it back together, fill to the proper level and test. HOPEFULLY it doesn't start slipping, but if it does, I'll just add some Lucas Tranny Fix. I've used it before on other people's cars on marginal trannys and they've got some more time, some a few thousand miles and a few over 10,000 miles.