I got new magnets!
 

Finally, I received my order for 5 NdFeB magnets. These things are incredible. You really have to be careful how close you put them together! The only thing that worries me, is that they lose their magnet field when heated above 250*F. Will my transmission pan get that hot? That's where these suckers are going, of course.


-justin

I was beginning to wonder why we cared about Magnets.... :lol:

Your tranny pan shouldn't get anywhere near that hot. Plus, the magnets, if on the ooutside, will be air cooled whenever you move the car.

PS - I also put a magnet right above the drain plug of my oil pan. Probably worthless, but what the heck, right?

If your transmission pan reached temperatures that high I would be far more concerned with the viscosity of the transmission fluid.

I assume these are "rare earth" type magnets?

were those the ones on Ebay???????

I read the auction and started to buy some of the round ones for a winter project for winter 2005.

Should be ok being on the outside.

Those magnets are awesome. I used to have a set if them, with one being tied back by some fishing line. Looked really cool hovering there - but if you ever get a chunk of skin in between those suckers... :oops:

I beleive mine had iridium instead of iron, however.

No, these are not from eBay. These are from http://www.wondermagnet.com/ This website is that a large group with many great electronic stuff. I paid $20 for the five. These apparently are the most powerful out there. I don't know what material they are made of, but holy shit are these suckers strong. I had them about 3" away from each other on my pants, and they just slid right to each other [slowly at first, then SMACK!] Learned to keep them seperated.

MOS: You have a drain plug? Lucky bastard.


-justin

neodymium, iron, and boron. Read more here especially where NOT to use 'em

http://www.mceproducts.com/knowledge...dgedt.asp?id=2

Here's a naive question::oops: why the magents? I'm assuming just to keep your tranny clean of any metal shavings by attracting them to the magnets? I havn't really heard much about using these, someone enlighten me :lol:

That's exactly what they're for. :wink:

Willwren was having major troubles w/ his tranny in Greenzilla and putting magnets on it helped him get a few more months out of it.
The magnets helped keep the metal chunks in the tranny pan.

Ok cool. Thought so, just wanted to check. Now where can I get some of these? They may help me out someday. I drive this car pretty hard and with the tranny shifting all the time almost to redline, it's possible it could weaken..maybe, even though i have a good amount of tq less than what's it's rated for. Still a possibilty.

No, i may have mis-typed - I meant that I put an extra magnet on my Oil Pan, just above the drain plug.

On most cars, it's just a sense of self security. Probably isn't doing anything for a good tranny/engine, but it ain't hurting nothing either, so why not. It's a pretty cheap "just in case"....

I posted the link for the site I bought mine off. Just cruise around there, you'll find 'em. And since my tranny is on it's last legs, I want to preserve it as long as possible. I am a firm believer that they will help keep my transmission alive.


-justin

mmm...most transmissions already have a magnet in the pan. If you've ever changed your own fluid/filter you should have seen it and cleaned it. I clean mine every time I change the filter, its amazing how much stuff that thing collects.

It's amazing how much it MISSES, too.

I gotta agree with Will, based just on what I saw when I cleaned mine

In my opinion, the factory magnet is borderline useless. It's just one of them plastic magnets like mom has a whole fridge of. :lol: Didn't look to me like it would be very long before it was just overwhelmed.

Granted, if you have a good, well maintained tranny already, then adding more magnets is probably overkill. But personally, I got mine out of some burnt out hard drives I found in the trash bin here, so not only did I get to rip the guts out of a hard drive (FUN!!) I got 5 pretty heavy duty magnets (broke one) to play with "just in case"...

I'll see what good they do in a month or two when I change my filter again

hehe yeah, my comment was mostly aimed at those saying "whats the magnet for?" and not as a 'well you've already got one, don't need two'.

Interesting...very interesting...

Which part?

Knowing Merlin, something entirely different than this post.....

:lol:

Hey now....!!! hehe

No the idea of using the magnets to keep your tranny running longer.... that's interesting....

...... thinking of other things to use the magnets for... that's interesting as well :uptosomething: