Ok So This Is A New One On Me

[Phatt_daddy]

While working on my sons 2000 v6. (Had the e ginger and trans out of the car) I pulled the trans pan off to change the gasket and filter..... to my surprise there was a little yellow plastic plunger looking thing just laying there in the bottom of the pan. Does anyone know what the heck it is and where it goes? I looked in the fill hole on an 03 auto parts car and saw the same thing floating in the fliud....... I'm so confused

 

[robertsa]

It's used to plug the hole in the trans before the factory installs the dipstick tube. It falls in the pan during the assembly process. It's garbage.

 

[imp]

".....It's garbage."

As is so much else in the realm of automotive-dom. imp