While changing trans gasket found this in my transmission pan. No issues, all gears work. 98 2.5 Auto
Found in transmission pan
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All I can say is two out of three (pieces) may not be good. Heck, even if it was still in one piece it may not be good.
That’s a broken snap ring. Take the ring pieces to your local transmission shop, they should be able to tell you where it came from.
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I have been going through FSM and, from what I see its most likely came from the area of the governor. Everything else is much bigger or its an E-clip. But logically it should not have made its way to the drain pan.
That looks like an external snap ring.
Governor looks to have internal snap rings keeping it together. If the governor came apart you would have some noticeable issues.
Governor looks to have internal snap rings keeping it together. If the governor came apart you would have some noticeable issues.
From the looks of it, its mopar pn 6501695. I can’t find anything inside the trans other than the governor. It wasn’t on the magnet both pieces were just laying in the pan in the back driver side corner. And the governor is pretty far back in the transmission. Stumped me
Worse yet, you have put the snap ring on the wife's nice white fluffy rug !! Trouble.
From the looks of it its mopar pn 6501695. I can’t find anything inside other then the governor.
I think its 6501695
I think its 6501695
That is an internal snap ring. It goes down in a bore.
What you have on the towel is external. It goes around something.
anything broken on governor would have no way to make it into the pan; the only connection between the gov & trans is through the exit bore (which is a smooth fit bushing) or the oil passage which is tiny.
I'm 99% sure that's the snap ring that essentially holds the front planetary to the sun shell & output shaft. With it not being there, the planetary could theoretically walk forward and lose connection with the sun gear which would probably end up looking like massive slipping or permanent neutral. However, just quickly thinking about it in my head, I think it can't actually walk that far forward because ultimately the whole stack is pushed up against the thrust washer on the back side of the pump.
I guess looking at it from the other direction, it's also what holds the output shaft in (I'm pretty sure). There's another lock ring deeper down, but I don't believe it holds the shaft in. So I guess without that c-clip the output shaft could walk it's way out. That would probably manifest initially as maybe Park not wanting to engage because the sprag moved too far back? Or maybe noise as the back side of the governor contacts the rear of the extension housing? IDK, I'm just wildly speculating now.
I have the same exact issue with my 1998 Wrangler with a 30rh automatic and I found the same snap ring broken in the same exact way while changing the filter and just being able to find two of the three pieces but mine was stuck to the magnet. The only issue I have is that in drive it wants to take off in second gear instead of first but it shifts on to third and the torque converter locks up just fine. It will shift into first gear if shift it to 1. I would like to see what else anybody might be able to come up or if this issue is resolved