After the installation of my Ford Racing Deep Tranny Pan I now have the ability to change my tranny fluid relatively easily.
I thought I would pass along my learning experience. The Trilogy blower is a fine albeit large piece of hardware and a large portion of it sits near the tranny fluid dipstick/fill tube.
Fluid out is a snap with the FRP pan with magnetic drain plug. Not a drop spilled versus a pan drop which put about 1/4 quart on my garage floor.
I found a tranny funnel with flexible tubing which is required to thread around the miscellaneous vacuum, egr, etc tubing lurking near the firewall.
Borrowing a technique from work I used a piece of 12 gauge wire to guide the flexible tube into the filler hole.
Fearing I might pull the funnel out I had my "assistant" hand me pre-opened quarts of Mercon V.
End result; no drips, drops or spills of Mercon V.
I benifited tremendously from my struggles of the first fluid change during pan install and figured I would pass along my "knowledge" to save someone cursing, smashing hands, spilling smelly Mercon V all over everything.
jeremy
