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I have a general question regarding the guts & operation of an AT.
A few years ago I swapped a 5.3 mated to a 6L80, into a Toyota Land Cruiser. We recently returned from an 5 day extended off road trip. Reached the highway as night was falling, did a routine check of fluids, just to be sure brush, mud, & whatever had not ripped cooling lines, brake lines, before stepping up to highway speeds to get home.
To my surprise the AT dip stick was DRY ?!?!?
panicked, got some fluid from a kind soul in the parking lot, and drove 2 hrs, highway speed home
in the light of day, after some rest, realized the tip of the dipstick had broken off, and other than overfilled, nothing was seriously wrong.
I have no drain plug in this AT pan. The pan gasket, Is dry and beautiful, hate to disturb it. A new dipstick is on the way, and I can drain some xs fluid by disconnecting a cooler line.
What is the harm in leaving 2”-3” of dipstick in the AT pan ?
The dipstick piece won't go anywhere. Just get a new one
Any way to run a piece of tubing down the dipstick tube and suck it out?
That's actually how my 4L60E got serviced last time...
I was thinking on some AT pans isn't there a small magnet in the pan to collect metal bits? Maybe the end of stick will attach itself and stay put?
Either way I don't think either way that piece of the stick can go anywhere.
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it has power to BURN, compared to the toyota iron block 6I. Toyota has never really produced a truck with a lot of power. They lean more towards dependability rather that performance. This truck was built in 1992, based on engineering several years older than that, and now I’m running it with a 2010 Chevy. So 18 years of improved engineering, improved reliability and improved performance over the old 1992
but in the interest of full disclosure, I am an old man, I don’t really drive it like I stole it !
I might be selling in a year or two, come to Alaska and take it for a drive !!
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General AT question 
