Clutch / Torque Converter: 2R17 4speed bellhousing object

[LeoH]

I took the cover off the transmission, partly to ensure there's no hangup when we go to lift the engine and partly to see what was under it.
There is a rubber plug in the top center of the bellhousing that isn't referenced in the manual, although the hole it plugs is shown open in a couple of photos.
It's odd, it appears like it's almost an electrical plug, based on how it's shaped and that it has 2 thin vertical slots in the flat side facing out. The side against the bellhousing is rounded, like an electrical plug. I really don't think that's what it was though since the slots looked too short for a typical electrical plug, imo. Weird.

[Alan]

Somebody put it there to keep rats out.

[LeoH]

Well THAT didn't work they were in the seat back and bottom AND they went to lunch on the wires in the engine compartment.

Just sayin'.

[Alan]

Out of the bell housing, not anywhere else.

[LeoH]

Oh. Interesting. I'll have to see just what that plug is then.

[TWChamp]

Yes, what Alan said. My 1946 M-5 had a stuck starter drive due to mice.
I removed the starter and cleaned and oiled the helix, but just a month later it was stuck again.
I need to make a screen for that vent hole.

[LeoH]

Wow. I guess I'll leave it alone if it doesn't remove easily then.

[LeoH]

I looked at this plug closer today and it actually IS a very old, very large rubber coated electrical plug someone shoved in the hole in the bellhousing. It's still stuck in there well enough I'll leave it there but I saw today where the rubber was cracking and I could see the inside of an electrical plug.