Look at this chunk

[mannrak]

I found this on the magnetic drain plug from my transmission. Should I be worried?

[Bobboloo]

Looks like a dogtooth.

Bobby

[rstoll]

I'm worried and it's not my chunk!

[TimT]

Looks like a dogtooth

Yup...Is the tranny out of the car for re-building? or was that just a normal routine fluid change

[Typical Fish]

You know, if you ever doubt the value of the magnetic drain plug; just think how much MORE damage that chunk would do rattling around in your tranny.

[stuttgart]

OUCH!!! thats going to hurt.. I am sure it's not going to kill ya to drive it still but I'd want to tend to that ASAP! if I were you.
Eric mckenna
78SC

[mannrak]

It was a fluid change. The car had been sitting in the garage for about 4 years and I just recently starting putting money back into it now the the house purchase is behind me. This sounds nasty.

[APKhaos]

Nasty?

Well, dogteeth are part of the Porsche synchro system, and they can break. You found one, but I'm sure there are lots of guys driving 915 boxes totally unaware that they have incomplete smiles.

Your gearbox can operate fine with a few missing dogtteeth, so make the rebuild call on the way it sounds and shifts. If it shifts well, just drive it. Oh, and run the trans oil through a screen next time you change it - the larger chunks may be too heavy for the magnet to grip.

[Bobboloo]

I'm sure there are lots of guys driving 915 boxes totally unaware that they have incomplete smiles.

LOL
Bobby

[ChrisBennet]

.. and if all the teeth came off that gear would be "gumming it".

I would not run the car. The dog teeth are hardened steel and while the dog ring may not mind its "hockey smile" if the next tooth that breaks off gets sucked into one of the gears it can cause expensive damage.
The dog teeth are a consumable item like a clutch and aren't that expensive compared to the gears. Rebuild your tranny.
-Chris

[Jdub]

Rob:

Get it over to John Walker and you'll be good (unless you decide to do this yourself). I looked at your car over at the Owner's Gallery but could not find the mileage. My thought is that you might have been due anyway for a rebuild (how was the shifting) and this may be a good time to take care of this, the clutch, the engine padding, repaint the engine tin, do those valves with the motor out of the car...well, you get the picture!

Certainly a nice black coupe with a 3.0 is very much worth the effort!

John

[widebody911]

The Great Akbar sees a transmission rebuild in your future.

[mannrak]

I've put about 85,000 miles on it since I've owned it, but I'm not sure how many miles the engine or transmission have on them total. John Walker did the PPI and all of the tune-up/valve adjusts while I was driving it daily and it's always run and shifted great. The clutch was replaced about 25,000 miles ago.