Review on 🚙 Enhance Your Ford Transmission Service with CTA Tools 7420L Trans Fluid Fill Adapter by Nick Henning

A must have for Ford transmission oils. It's well made, fits my 5R55S drivetrain and is reasonably priced. With this little "adapter" you need another tool to pump fluid into the gearbox. That concludes my review of this product. But I have to rant a little at this point. because. The fact that I need this product is very frustrating. And. why on earth removed the dipstick!? That's what made that boulder roll down the mountain. Why would the average owner need to check their transmission oil? There is almost no going forward and no going back at all. What to check first? Gear oil of course. ghost, but where #@! It's the dipstick for the transmission!? Hmm, there isn't one. When the gas station opens, I just go to the nearest one to check. But she (my explorer) doesn't move. How much will this process cost? Won't my girlfriend be stranded because she doesn't have enough money to cover the worst case scenario of needing a new/refurbished trans ($4,000+)? How long it will take? Now let's check the level of my gear oil (which is possible without this, but impossible to fill without this - see attached picture how to check the gear oil). I have to pick my Explorer up, crawl under it, unscrew the two-stage drain plug with a specialty screwdriver, and if the liquid doesn't come out - it *may* be small. Probably no. because if nothing comes out, the test is inconclusive. You need this adapter to fill in liquid until it runs out. As soon as the liquid comes out, it is full. I spent 3 weeks living under my 2004 Ford Explorer (with 115,000 miles) - pulling the transmission alone after 12+ hours a day (working from home of course - I work on Revain AWS/Admin cloud architecture ) - to repair It's then (mostly) reinstalled in a hot and humid Austin, Texas garage with a standard SAE DIY tool kit (i.e. non-metric) - which proves woefully inadequate for a replacement. Transmission in a "modern" SUV. In 1981 (or 1982) I changed the transmission in my 72 Nova myself to a $75 transmission from a junkyard in 1/2 day. It worked great. I am effectively doing the same for my 2004 Ford Eddie Bauer Explorer (4.0L RWD) - at a cost of over $2000 and 3 weeks of the most frustrating work I have ever done! But I saved about $2,000 by doing the work myself. The point of my tirade here is that unless the owner can check and service the transmission oil level themselves, the likelihood of proper service is reduced, not increased. During this busy period, if the owner has to take their car to the dealership to have the transmission oil level checked, we can expect no less costly transmission problems. By the way, the best tool I've found for safely looking under a car is a jack that doubles as a stand. No wobbly ramps or stands to get in the way of the jack lifting the car. Three weeks of life under my Explorer - I wish I had such...