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Originally Posted by 2002Silver4.6is
The fellow at the shop told me there was metal in the transmission pan. Additionally, he told me the "transmission filer was clogged". ....I asked him when would I have had to have done a trans service to not have the clogged filter. His response was 25,000 - 30,000 miles. I will do a trans service at 90,000.
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The failure mode isn't described here. If a bearing failed in the transmission, and the subsequent damage clogged the filter, then changing the filter would not have helped. OTOH, if the filter was clogged due to normal wear, and that caused the failure that produced the metal in the pan, then changing it may have prevented a failure. My point is that you only have partial information, not a failure analysis report. By all means, if changing the filter feels good, then you should do it. It is just that determining the cause vs the effect post-failure can be difficult, it isn't always straightforward.
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