Grinding Gears

So at the bottom of the transmission pan is a magnet to collect any metal shaving from gear wear. This magnet is from the replacement transmission and has about 1/8" (2mm) of metal shards in powder form mixed with tranny fluid. That's not bad for 125k miles on the transmission.



This is the magnet from my old transmission pan and as you can see, there is at least 1/4" (4mm) of ground gear powder! Though there are about 180k miles on this tranny, I redid the transmission pan gasket kit about a year ago, so the gears in this tranny are basically just grinding themselves down to nothing! (@.@)