This pan holds to four quarts more fluid than the stock pan, to cut heat and extend your transmission's life, the aluminum pan has cooling fins to dissipate heat, the pan comes with magnetic drain plug, filter extension and gasket (BMM-10280).
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Dodge 727 Shift kit
It is a job which you worry about months before,
but afterwards it was not so difficult, here are some tips that might save
you a couple of hours. I used the BMM-10225.
In advance:
- Look if your installation instruction is ledgible, I could not read mine, it was a very bad copy with extremely bad pictures so it made me more worried about how to solve this job successfully.
- Check and count if there are enough bolts for the oilpan, in my package there were missing a few or they had another head, if this happens to you, do not hesitate to contact B&M, they will send you an original manual and the lacking bolts.
- Remove the old pan and disamble the (10) valve body bolts, put the pan aside in a large tray and spray it with lots of degrease, even after turning it around for several times the oil still leaks out of the pan, there are a lot of small moving parts inside the valve body, which holds the fluid.
- I waited until a quite sunday morning when we had no visit and I send the family to the swimming pool, I made a lot of coffee and put a white cloth on the kitchen table, then I took a medium sized tray which fitted the valve body, the oil is still leaking and you will need a lot of kitchen paper, you will need lots of small trays for the small parts, if you follow the manual the job will be done in a few hours.
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How to install the valve body
I have underestimated this job, I just put the
valve body back to the transmission and inserted the park rod into to the
hole in the rear of the case, apparently I did not read the installation
instruction carefully because when I drove the first time (after the rebuild)
shifting in P did not block the front wheels and I could not start the
Dodge Power Wagon in P, ok, I had to remove the pan from the transmission
(now you can see that the magnetic drain plug is very convenient) I shifted
first in P, I watched at the lever that was connected to the valve body
and noticed that the lever did not push the electrical switch that makes
contact to the starter, if I pushed the lever a little bit further by hand
and retried starting, it worked, then I looked at my shift pointer in the
cabine above my steering wheel it did not point to "P", it was pointing
too much to the left, I made my mind up and then I realized that I had
renewed the cabin cushions and that the cabin was lifted regarding to the
old situation, this changed the length of the levers, which caused this
problem, I loosed the adjusting screw to the lever, and moved the lever
a little bit so that the pointer in the cabin pointed to the exact location,
I also watched the lever in the valve body and I noticed that the magnetical
switch worked correctly, I restarted the engine and the starting problem
was solved, pfffff
Fact was that the P still did not block the front wheels, I read the installation instruction again and I realized that the valve body was not installed in the correct way, I removed the valve body, according to the installation instruction you have to GUIDE the valve body up into the transmission, at that moment do not fasten the bolds, just hold your valve body steady in your hands and put the park rod into the hole, according the installation instruction you will have to rotate the drive shaft until the parking rod engages the pawl until you hear a click, I was very relieved when I heard this sound, at this moment I could not move the drive shaft any more, I still wonder why it has to be done this way, ok, than you have to align the valve body with the case and fasten the bolts, back into the cabin, restart the engine in N, the starter works and the wheels are turning, turn the motor off, restart the engine in P, engine starts and the wheels are blocked, finally this problem was solved, then mount the oilpan pan again, fill up the oil, loose the hose from the external oilfilter etc. see extra cooling, when I drove again to try the Dodge Power Wagon everything worked fine. above
