ok, i feel stupid. i was changing the transmission fluid on my car, and i used a piece of silicone vacuumm hose as an extention to get the fluid from the bottle to the fill plug. my hand accidentally slipped when i sneezed and i pushed the the hose into the fill hole and it fell off inside! i have been trying everything to get it out, but no luck. if i leave it in there how much damage can it do? will it just get chewed up by the gears? if it gets chewed up can i just drain it out then? i really dont want to take out the transmission. any ideas or suggestions?

 

Either remove and disassemble the trans or risk damage.

 

Try taking out the drain plug and seeing if you can grab it from the bottom?

 

tried the drain plug.....nothin.

 

that is teh suck.

must be removed.

 

oh NOES

Taking out the whole transmision sounds a bit extreme. I dont care what you need to do to get it out, try it before taking the car apart

Super long tweezers? Tiny midget hands? Train ants?

 

theres 3 things u can do.
1. tear it apart your self.(hardest)
2. pay someone else to tear it apart (too expensive)
3. drive till somthing actually breaks then get a diff trany( probably cheaper at a junk yard then paying someone to dismantle the trany)

the gears in the trany are steel, the silicon piece of hose wont damage them. it "might" wear out the bearings tho. if it was me id just drive it take the chance. it will prolly be fine.

 

you might want to tyr to get one or those flexable things with the claws at the end and try to get with that. if it were me and i couldent get it out i would just drive with it in there. just make sure that you change the fluid in like 10 miles to see if it got chewed up.

 

yeah i tried for hours with one of those flexible claw things...no luck there. i even used some long surgical forceps. i guess ill wait until it gets chewed up soon. it will probably come out a little easier when its it tiny little pieces

 

i even took syncro's advice and trained ants... too bad they all drowned in the tranny fluid. maybe if i build a tiny ant boat for them...

 

thats insane.

 

Take the pan off. The fill tube exits the housing right over the pan. Should be able to remove it that way. Unless the tube was very short, I don't believe it could find its way out. To move around freely in the pan. If it did, I dont believe it could find its way into the workings. There is a filter and a valvebody in the way. Could make your dip stick read funny though.

 

i don't think he has an auto trans.

 

My Bad! I thought he had an auto. He's bummin'. I'd take my chances. Silicone rubber is no match for hardened steel.

 

Maybe you could blow compressed air in the filler hole to try to move the hose over the drain hole where you can see it and grab it.

 

I think you might just have to bite the bullet and drive around with the hose in there.

I say, pour the old tranny fluid back in

Then, drive around for about 5 miles, then drain it through a sifter, then drive another 5 or 10 miles, and drain and sift, and keep doing that till it comes out clean-ish, then put the new fluid in, and then check/replace it after 100, 500, or 1000 miles.

 

Honestly, with the transmission spinning at high speeds, even a 1cm piece of hose could **** things up. Honestly, since your not considering the best options, drive around 'slowly' for the next couple hundred kilometers and 'hope' that it gets chewed up nicely.

LMAO good luck

Oh yea keep us updated

 

i'm not laughing at you, but with you...

Hahaha. N/a trannys only run about 50 bucks.

 

yeah, i only paid 50 or 75 for the tranny, but taking it all apart is a pain in the ***. and yes its a manual transmission from an 88 gxl. we'll see what happens i guess. ill keep everyone posted one this one, im sure it will be interesting to see how strong our almost 20 year old transmissions really are.

 

btw: how much fluid does it take to fill an n/a trans anyway? this is my first time changing the lube.