Not that I remember. I drilled the hole with the magnet in there and it picked up the metal shavings from that so I had to really clean it. Not sure if there were some on there or not before that I'm thinking there may have been a few small ones. BTW the fluid only had 2k miles or so on it when I decided to do this. The magnet however did seem to be a little black and dirtier than the fluid which looked perfect. Milky sounds like water. You sure you didn't have water in there?

 

No, this was definitely a fine metallic grit. At 40K, I had it flushed at a shop, but I'm pretty sure at this point that they didn't pull the pan. The manual drain I did was the first time the pan had ever been off.

 

I noticed today in the morning that my car is leaking transmission fluid but in the back side of the transmission. Is there any seal or something?

 

Finally this is my drain plug for the tranny...