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The gunk on it is actually on the outside of the filter. If you look at the filter area on the stock solenoid, you can see only the top filter area is clogging up. It came off nice and clean and I was able to reuse it.īoth solenoids together, the new heavy duty Borg Warner on the left. I took a razor blade and slowly lifted it off working my way all around and NOT forcing it off. The gasket is holding it in place and you can see both parts real good.Ī shot of the basic clip holding the harness to the pressure sensor.Īs you can see, my gasket was installed crooked from the factory. Doesn't matter what part I take off the D and put back on, that part will always be cleaned, detailed and most likely re-painted if it was painted. The top of the heat shield showing the build up of gunk. As I said, only this part had the build up on it and not the rest of the inside so it must have something to do with the magnetized solenoid. Here's a bottom shot of the stainless heat shield with some pretty nasty stuff on it. They're the T20 Torx and the other four bolts are 11mm. You can see I removed the two torx bolts already.

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Plus my year model had the basic locking tab holding the connector in place while the 2000 and up have a dual locking tab as explained in the video. They went to the new plastic transducer on the 2000 and up models.

If you look to the right, you can see that stainless heat shield only goes around the solenoid as my D is a '98 which doesn't have the new plastic transducer that replaced our old canister pressure sensor. I tried not to, but it's brittle and broke. In it he talks about not breaking it but, if you do break it, it doesn't matter as the new one comes complete with one. Here's a shot of the little tab the video talks about. Underneath shot showing both pieces that need replacing. This part was filthy and maybe, since the solenoid is magnetized, the metal powder gathers around it somewhat?

Also look at the left part of the stainless heat shield where the torx head is located you can see where I wiped it clean. That piece is actually magnetized which I'll show in my next post. Look at where the fluid is just about to drip and notice the dark ring around the center. If you look closely at the governor pressure solenoid, you can see the black metal powder residue build up around the center of it. The filter came out next (takes a T20 Torx to remove the two screws.) I hope the build up is from the last 14 years and not over the last two years. Not really sure if the shop that changed the fluid and filter about two years ago actually cleaned all this out or not.

Maybe an air bubble had to work its way through the sensors?Īll I had to do was remove my crossover pipe.Īfter dropping the pan, this is the gunk left in it plus the doughnut magnet had metal powder build up on it. At one point after we exited the freeway and stopped at a light, it wouldn't shift at all and started screaming so we pulled over, turned it off, restarted and it's ran fine since. It shifted so much more smoother and properly. It only seemed to act up if I got into the pedal too much.Īfter installing the new parts last night, I took it down the freeway going to Academy and it drove great. I also noticed if I stayed really light footed, it wouldn't act up on me. I could pull over, shut it down, restart and it'd drive normal again. On the days that it wouldn't shift and rev to 3000, I'd have to romp on it to get it to change. Other days it'd shift fine as if nothing was wrong with it. The D was shifting erratically, sometimes it wasn't shifting until I romped on the pedal and, when it did shift, it hit hard.

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I paid $92 for the parts with free shipping off eBay.

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Here's the writeup I did when I replaced mine yesterday and here's a video from YouTube showing how to do it on a 2000 D ( It went easier than I thought it would and they sure needed replacing.