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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.
98 SE V6 Dark Toreador Red
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There is no filter, just a screen, that as far as I know, cant be replaced without taking the tranny apart 
Hopefully Terry will be here soon to tell me Im right, or full of it  but Im pretty sure Im right.
-Ken V.
1998.5 SE Praire Tan Zetec ATX
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CRZYDRVR, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ! The wickedly stupid CD4E DOESN'T have an ordinary filter like the rest of the automatic transmissions do. I wonder who's bright idea was this... 
Pete...
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Black Clearcoat/Dark Charcoal LEATHER
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I've gone to yearly changes with synthetic fluid to keep it clean/fresh.
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CRZYDRVR,
YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT ! In reply to:
WOO HOO!!! 
-Ken V.
1998.5 SE Praire Tan Zetec ATX
psycho_bass@hotmail.com
Roush springs Roush rear sway bar BAT struts 17" Millie Miglia HT3 and a ton of subtle asthetic mods
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Thanks for the info. If there is no filter then what in the heck did I buy from the dealer?! I simply told them I needed a filter for a 98 Contour with the V6 and they sold me this filter for $28! They will see today about this.
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There is a filter, it is accessable only by some amount of tranny disassembly. I bought and and returned a filter kit a few years ago that had a large plastic filter with some sort of felt-type element. i gave up on removing the side
pan since it was too difficult.
Look into the Magnefine, which splices into the cooling line.
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What is the least cost approach to run these suckers into the ground?
Outside Filter Whos $$$ ?
Haynes 3 Qt Drain ?
Drain and FILL with 4 people and hoses Tanks Etc?
THANKS
1999 GREEN Contour SE SPORT Duratec V6, ATX, SUNROOF, 93,000 Miles, P0420 ON&OFF -replaced DS O2 --did not FIX
*New TORQUE CONVERTER @ 53,000-Intermittent P1744
*New DASH at 53,000 and New DASH lifted-now using MOLLEY bolts to pull down
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1996SE sports package, Duratec MTX No mods yet.
80K Kilometers.
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Wife has 1996GL Zetec ATX.
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