D5 convter have a factory drain plug?

[dyermullet]

I was always under the impression that it did not.  When I removed my transmission yesterday I found a drain plug in my converter.  I had thought that it was a stock D5 this whole time.

[Steve Wood]

I don't recall one...does the unit have D5 stamped on it...if it was aftermarket, it could be anything

[Just a Six?]

Not that I'm some converter expert but I have never seen a drain plug on any converter??

[SuperSix]

Not that I'm some converter expert but I have never seen a drain plug on any converter??

Neither have I. I don't imagine that would make the unit easy to balance.

[Steve Wood]

It used to be fairly common....Seem s like the one I took off the Challenger had one...and GM used to have them on at least some cars

[Pyro6]

It used to be: Chrylser/Ford had em, GM seldom did. What we used to do though is drill and tap GM convertors until the advent of lockups. It seems that when the lockup torque convertors hit the scene so was the elimination of drain plugs.

[dyermullet]

Yeah it has D5 stamped all around it, it is (or was) a factory D5. 
Mine even has the sticker on it just like the one in the photo guide
http://www.gnttype.org/techarea/pictureguides/tranny/D5converter.html
 
Agreed with the Ford having them I had seen them on old C6's up through late 90's modular powered trucks (havn't dealt with anything newer).
 
 I just had it in my mind from back in the old gnttype mailing list days that D5's never had a factory drain plug.  The welds on the converter look like OEM quality, I will take a picture of it this week.  This could have just been a P.O. tapped it, it is a small 1/8" pipe plug. I bought the cars years ago off of a friend and he didn't know about it either.  Only thing we knew about the trans was that it had a shift kit instaled by the original owner.  The car always was kinda fast for being "stock" maybe it was restalled.