Re: R9 Overdrive Solenoid Spacer direction

Posted by Joe Santana On 2012/7/2 22:34:50

Dell, thanks for the tips. I'll get to take solenoid out again. It's leaking. I am becoming an expert. I have almost 10,000 hours in removing and installing the solenoid...incorrectly mostly.

It didn't have a seal when I opened it. It had form-a-gasket or blue silicone inside the spacer/adapter around the flange that's around the center (off set) hole when I took it out the other night. I just took it for a drive and when I parked, a trail of leaks. (I didn't go far and the tranny/OD was just filled, part of the reason I went out was to get all my fittings greased at Fast Lane Oil). But now I'm home. Tomorrow I'll get an oil seal and I'll take the solenoid out again.

At the moment, it's installed with the small holes to the rear, but it won't engage.
The red light comes on and it goes into freewheeling. I'm going to read up on it tonight.

I truly appreciate your post here. I'm not at all mechanically inclined. Otherwise I would have marked the solenoid before taking things apart. Usually I take pictures of everything, but it's so crammed under there and I don't want to mess up my iPhone. I thought the gasket was the seal. The old gasket was beat up so I made a new one. I thought that would do it, stop leaks. But it doesn't without an oil seal.

EDIT...So what I'm calling a gasket is the washer? Made of gasket materials with 4 holes around the big center hole? I'll check my parts book, too. Should have in the beginning.
Thanks,
Joe