Removal Procedure
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2008 Buick Lucerne. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
- Remove the bottom pan and seal, scavenge screens, and the lip seals. Refer to Transfer Oil Pump Inlet Screen and Pipe Seal Replacement .
- Remove the bolts from the oil transfer plate and the wire harness extension retaining clip.
- Remove the oil transfer plate.
- Disconnect the wire harness extension from the wire harness assembly.
- Use a small screwdriver in order to disconnect the manual valve link retainer (2) from the manual valve link (3).
- Remove the manual valve link (3) from the inside detent lever (1).
- Remove the two nuts and fourteen bolts from the lower valve assembly.
- Remove the lower valve assembly (consisting of the channel plate, control valve body, accumulator assembly, and wire harness extension) from the transaxle case as a single unit.
- For disassembly of the lower control valve body assembly. Refer to Control Valve Lower Body Disassemble .
IMPORTANT:
Do not reuse the retainer (2), it must be replaced.
IMPORTANT:
Do not pry the internal mode switch assembly.