I rebuilt my transmission filter like David Teitelbaum said to do and it went great. The hardest part was keeping the flattened copper pipe from working loose as I was putting it on. I used a Dremmel tool with a small cutting bit to slit the copper pipe. This was a bit more of a job than the tool was meant to handle, so I divided it up into 4 cutting sessions so that it wouldn't over heat too much. I soldered the ends of the pipe together using a 250 Watt soldering gun meant for electronics. A better choice may have been oxy/acetleyne, but I didn't feel like dragging the tanks out or getting the brass screen too hot. One step David didn't mention is that you will have to drill out the 3 bolt holes as these are crimped around also. I cleaned the screen with a disc brake type degreaser. It worked great. I used a magnet and my fingernail to get a few stubborn metal flakes out of it. Be aware that tri-chloro-ethane is VERY poisonous to breath. When you are done, be sure to put the magnet back on the filter in the same place. At 12,600 miles, my filter magnet had way more than twice the amount of particles stuck to it than was stuck in the brass screen inside the filter. In fact, the magnet didn't look like it had any more room for particles to stick to it, but the pan had no residue to speak of other than a thin film of gray that wiped out with a paper towel. I went to Radio Shack and bought a 2 pack of high energy rare earth magnets. I put both of these on other spots of the filter keeping them out of the way of the inlet port. I would have stuck some magnets in the pan, but I bought the only pack they had on the shelf. I have seen old posts on the DML that some people had the opinion that the Delorean automatic transmission would last longer without a filter. Based solely on my observations from rebuilding my filter, I disagree. Besides the magnet appearing to be saturated, the brass screen inside had very little debris outlining one corner. The screen appears to offer little resistance to fuild flow. If you decide to run it without a filter, at the very least put some magnets around there. They pick up more than the filter.