Remove 2004 Remove Hydraulics Remove Technical
article thumbnail

Transmission Valve Body Replacement

Tomorrow's Technician

The days are gone when transmissions were purely mechanical and hydraulic and all you really needed was a set of high-pressure gauges to check line pressure and a vacuum gauge to check the engine’s intake vacuum and the integrity of the vacuum modulator. The topology for these networks is typically a loop.

Technical 130
article thumbnail

AWD and ABS Services

Tomorrow's Technician

Around 2004, many manufacturers of AWD systems started to abandon complex transfer case center differentials in favor of less expensive clutches. The brake hydraulic control module on these vehicles has at least 12 valves. These components were prone to failure and are expensive to manufacture.