Im getting ready to do my converter swap. Should I go ahead and change the fluid and filter while I do the converter or take it some where after the swap and have a new filter, flush, fill done?
Thanks for the input

 

I'd do it at the same time.

 

^^Agreed. You are going to need add fluid anyway after the converter swap. Might as well drop the pan and put a new filter in also. Would be perfect time to upgrade to a higher capacity trans pan with a drain plug also.

 

You'll never get a better chance to get it all clean; leave it
be and best you can do is change about half of the total
later by dropping the pan.

And there, I'd recommend you go find a truck pan and a
truck filter kit to go back on.

 

Does the truck pan hang lower the our pans? I'm lowered some. And does it have a drain plag like mentioned would be nice? Also does mounting the new tranny cooler dope style have any benifits beside eas of work cuz of little room to work with on rad n not blocking air flow to the lid? Thanks

 

Yes the truck pan hangs lower and requires a deep filter.

 

the only reason i see that people need to run the trans cooler dope style is if they are running a FTRA or Chris1313 intake and there is no room on the condensor for the trans cooler.

 

I pulled off my TCI deep cast aluminum finned pan today,after 10 years of useage. Came down on a speed bump even though I was at snail speed. I thought I had come down on the driveshaft loop,but no,the pan. Nothing catastrophic,slow seepage,caused by external fractures receiving fluid from the internal casting porosities. Got the OEM pan on now. How much lower does the truck pan hang compared to the OEM pan ? Got a part number ?

 

I have the truck pan off a '00 Silverado. I put it on after
having the same sort of problem with the TCI deep finned
pan. The truck pan is not as much of a menace (and being
steel, more tolerant of abuse). I make it 3/4 - 1" lower than
stock, not as low hanging as the TCI. The '00 Silverado pan
has the drain plug. But you can also find add-it-after drain
plug kits if you're not having any luck finding what you want
(I'd try performancetrucks.net classifieds).

 

pic of my 'fractured' pan from post #8



the lighter elliptical circle is full of fractures,outside of that ellipse was darkened in photoshop.

 

Yep, that's the reason I'd never run one of those pans. We all know cast aluminum fractures rather than dents. Jimmyblue's setup is the right call for those looking for a deeper pan.

 

I had a deep pan on my Firebird, and went over a speed bump while driving out of a parking garage. I heard it audibly scrape, but nothing happened for a while so I didn't think much of it. 15 minutes later, as I was driving down the highway, people were honking at me to pull over and when I looked in my rearview, I saw white smoke trailing from the car. After a panicked attempt to pull over as cars swerved around me, I checked the bottom of the car: the drain plug had popped off and the pan had a huge crack in it. My car isn't lowered either, so good luck to you guys running deep pans with a slammed set-up.

After yesterday, I'll stick to the stock pan and just add a cooler.