well i dropped the pan and noticed there were small thin greyish metal pieces on the magnet. everywhere else on the pan was clear. i asked the original owner and he said that b4 he stopped driving the car, the half shaft snapped when he took it to the track on his first pass. he noticed something wasnt right and put it back on the trailer and headed home. he then took the tranny out and found that indeed the haf shaft snapped(i have it in my e-mail anyone interested please let me know and i'll try to upload pics tomorrow at work). he put in a new half shaft and was planning on taking it to erik at dynotech but during that time was when erik passed away, so the owner decided to call it quits and demod and sell the tranny which brings it to th present with me as the new owner.
i replaced the tranny filter with a new one, but am i looking at an already FUBAR'ed tranny? im thinking/planning on having the tranny shop im taking it to, to have them do a tranny flush, then after everything's done and when i drive the car, put like 500-1000 miles-assuming the car drives 100% fine-drop the pan and do another tranny filter and fluid change. trannyman, this is where i need your opinion on this :-\
edit-heres what he sent me in the e-mail minus pics for the moment:
the metal shaft that goes from the drivers side CV shaft to the diff broke on me the piece was changed, some pics too show which piece, didn't know it was that dirty in the tranny, I would suggest having the tranny cleaned b/c those metal pieces could give u more problems later on by plugging solenoids and sticking in the valve body, if any of those pieces get into your torque converter even more issues.
