Low/Reverse Servo Assembly: Installation
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 2002 Ford Ranger. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
- Clean and inspect the low/reverse band servo piston bore and the low/reverse band servo piston and rod.
- Install the low/reverse band servo piston and rod.
- Install the low/reverse band servo piston and rod assembly.
- Install a new low/reverse band servo separator plate cover gasket.
- Install the low/reverse band servo cover.
- Loosely install the low/reverse band servo piston cover screws.
- Tighten the servo cover screws in the sequence shown.
- Install the transmission fluid filter.
- Install the transmission fluid filter.
- Install the transmission fluid filter screw.
- Install the transmission fluid pan.
- Position a new transmission fluid pan gasket on the transmission fluid pan.
- Install and align the transmission fluid pan.
- Loosely install the transmission fluid pan screws.
- Tighten the transmission fluid pan screws.
- Tighten the transmission fluid pan screws in a crisscross sequence.
- Install a new in-line transmission fluid filter kit or filter.
- Lower the vehicle.
- Connect the battery ground cable. For additional information, refer to BATTERY, MOUNTING AND CABLES .
- Fill the transmission to the correct fluid level and check for correct transmission operation.
NOTE:
If the vehicle was not equipped with a fluid filter, install a fluid filter kit. Follow the instructions supplied in the kit. If the vehicle was equipped with a filter, install a new filter.
NOTE:
When the battery has been disconnected and reconnected, some abnormal drive symptoms can occur while the vehicle relearns its adaptive strategy. The customer needs to be notified that they may experience slightly different upshifts either soft or firm and this is a temporary condition and will eventually return to normal operating condition.