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RE: Transmission check plug -- what size?

To: "triumphs" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Transmission check plug -- what size?
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 18:49:06 -0700
> Thing I am confused about is that the Moss catalog lists that the
> side check/fill plug is the same part # as the oil pan drain plug. I
> happen to have an extra oil drain plug, and it does not seem to be
> threaded correctly for the check/fill plug on the tranny. The funny
> recessed square drive plug is not a tapered thread like the drain
> plug, at least not that I can see. Odd...

Uh oh, sounds like a DPO-ism.  The fill plug on the side should be the same
as the drain (except for early TR2-3 that had straight threads on the engine
oil drain, and no fill plug on the side of the tranny).

Randall




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