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When I put the new engine in my wife's car, I pulled the trans pan and cleaned out as much of the old fluid (drained torque converter) as I could at the same time. Inside the pan, was a magnet, which had a very interesting rippled pattern of nearly fluid particles of ferrous metals. Very thin layer, maybe a 1x1" square, but very definitely noticeable. I cleaned it off, shined up the pan, cleaned the gasket, installed the new filter, and refilled the trans with close to the spec through the fill plug (no dipstick), then ran it to warm it up and did the check through the fluid inspection hole on the side of the tranny... took another 2qts past "spec" fill to actually get it full to where it was supposed to be.