Here goes nuthin'!

Go for it Hachi! Get out the air ratchet and get the pan off! You may find some "mystery metal".

Decided to do it. WHY?!?! What a PITA!

Caveat...everything looks clean. The filter is dirty, and I don't have a new one, but Toyota uses screens, so cleaning it shouldn't be tough.

There is something on the screen, I'm grabbing a magnet right now!

Actually, Hachi, have you ever driven a Supra with a stick ? Drive one once and you may never be satisfied with your slushbucket tranny again. I drove such a car a few years ago (a late 80s that had had its engine rebuilt) from Manhattan out to Long Island...way out...and the only slight problem I had was to keep my speed down to stay with traffic. It was like a spirited horse, champing at the bit, and the most fun 15-20 year old vehicle I've ever driven. I'd love to buy it myself if our friends, the owners, ever tire of it.

There should be 2 or 3 magnets stuck to the bottom of the transmission pan.

LOL! You haven't been following my saga over the 2.5 years I've owned the car!

I got it for $600 with a broken timing belt. $300 in parts and labor later I had a running Supra.

I immediately joined a Supra group and asked how to swap the tranny. A number of them there and a number of people here said the same thing:

Sell it and buy a 5-speed!

It's really not that tough, I found a tranny, and a driveshaft and flywheel etc, etc. Just got to round the stuff up...if I ever get around to it...

Four, but who's counting? ;)

No metal pieces on the magents, but in the process of trying to clean the screen, a couple of metal shavings (1/16" or smaller) fell out of the screen. I called AutoZone and they had on for $15, screen, not paper (on the recommendation from my local Toy garage, he said, "If it has a screen, buy it. If it doesn't, don't!"

See next thread...

I must admit that I have not followed the Supra Saga....although I empathize with your current troubles with trying to get the auto trans to quit spraying fluid over the countryside! Good luck with it ! And sooner or later, you will succeed in replacing it with the stick! Good going.

LOL! I'm always looking for parts. I found a 5-speed about 80 miles away, but just haven't gone to pick it up. Found the shaft and flywheel much closer, but I have other fish to fry right now!