fluid drive plug

[Phil Martin]

Couple months ago I was checking oil in fluid drive. Yes I made the fatal mistake. Dropped the plug down in the cover. Had some ticker surgery so it sat all this time. Finally got out there today and took the cover off and got the plug. What an allday job that was.Bet I don' drop it in there again. I had to add about 8oz of oil to converter hope that is not a bad sign. The ole dodge fired right up after sitting 10 weeks.

[Tom Skinner]

Phil,

I'm sorry you dropped the bolt down, and glad you retrieved it.

Hope you ticker's doing better also. Eight ounces isn't bad - thats about what I added when I got my '48 5 years ago. You should be good to go. By the way did you retrieve the bolt with a magnet or how did you, now that you got me wondering.

I hope you didn't have to remove the lower Clutch/Bell Cover if so I figure thats what took so long. Well - All's well that ends well - as the three stooges yoused to say. Stuff a rag around that bad boy next time and leave no room for it to drop down. I wish you smooth riding from here forward.

Tom

[Phil Martin]

I had to remove the cover. It's a bear of a job. I would think it was just steel. No, heavy pot medal had to hold it up with floor jackto put in bolts. Then to put in plug I used a piece of paper towel over socket and pt the plug in socket, worked great.

[Rusty O'Toole]

Next time stuff a rag around the hole, guess how I found this out lol. My car has a plate on the bottom of the bellhousing. I took the plate off and carefully turned the fluid drive unit by hand, using a pry bar on the ring gear, and the plug fell out unharmed.

[desoto1939]

Miller tools had a special socket that had a magnet in the socket to hold the bolt when you take the bolt out.

Here is my suggestion Get an extra Socket and then glue a rounf magnet intot he socket use gator glue. Then make the socket just longe enough so that the head of the bolt touches the magnet so that when you take the bolt out it will be held by the magnet and you can also use the same socket to install the bolt.

I will try to post a picture of the socket from my miller tools catalog after i get home tonight.

rich hartung

desoto1939@aol.com