I have a 97 Ford Escort Wagon that was in need of a transmission fluid change so I thought I might as well change the filter while I'm at it. In my Ford workshop manual it looked like a straight forward job, but so far it has been anything but that. The fasteners were pretty corroded so it took awhile to get all those out and now I have pulled the pan away from the housing and let the fluid drain out , but I can't get the pan to slide past the support beam. It looks like its about to slide away and then one of the corners gets wedged in between the support beam and the filter inside the housing. In the ford manual it mentions nothing about this. Anyone else have this problem?
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