Hey all,
I've done transmission filter changes before on a 96 Taurus and 98 Intrigue and it was a piece of cake. You just drop the pan, drain the fluid all over the place, pull out the filter, push in new filter, reinstall pan and gasket, and refill with Mercon AT fluid. So when I bought this C 2 months back with 59K on it, I just went to Ford dealer to by a trans filter figuring I could do it myself no problem. Well, last night after spending 5 hours screwing around taking out the battery support and trying to get this vertical pan off and then realizing there was no trans filter right behind it to be replaced I figured I'd come here for help. Can anyone tell me where this filter is and should I even mess around trying to replace it? If not, I'm probably stuck with this filter cause the dealer won't allow me to return it.
FYI - I ended up just doing the Haynes drain-fill-run-drain-refill and went to bed.
