u/dakrabbit111

First of all, thank you to anyone currently or formerly in the service. Also, there’s only one truly graphic photo but just as a warning. It should appear as the last photo.

My father passed in 2022 and this was something he left behind. I don’t know where he acquired it but from what I can tell, these are original. There are duplicates but they all have that silver mirroring when you shine a light on it. There’s a great deal of depth charge explosions and ships, sailors.. I’m not sure who they are but they could be family. If anyone has info on anything please leave it here! There’s tons more too if anyone wants to see more!

So Ive been wanting to change my transmission fluid.. I look under there one day at the pan and it’s weeping, looks like shit (pictures). I ordered a new pan from Z1, all the bolts, new plug and washer , gasket blah blah.. they didn’t have a filter so I’m skipping that.
So yesterday I borrowed a floor jack, more jack stands, etc. Still barely had any space, god this was awful. Crammed against the asphalt with no socket extensions or helpful tools besides my impact which I didn’t want to use, I spent hours with PB blaster, a hammer and flathead trying to unstuck these bolts. Finally came off. Drained around4.5 quarts of amber oil.. I thought it was going to be much worse.

TLDR ; is this actually the remnants of the old gasket? Do I have to scrape this off? That’s basically it, otherwise everything’s looking good. I had to leave it overnight because it got dark and I wasn’t going to try and scrape the old gasket off / align the new one in the dark. I’m
about to go out there and finish everything now!

Also , I found out what the sound was from my last video / post. It wasn’t a cv joint or anything major, just a massive piece of heat shield the techs at nissan forgot to remove. It fell off while I was driving.