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AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - 42RLE

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AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - 42RLE FLUID AND FILTER

DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - CAUSES OF
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING BURNT FLUID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - AUTOMATIC EFFECTS OF INCORRECT FLUID LEVEL . . 110
TRANSMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 FLUID CONTAMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - ROAD TEST . . . 46 STANDARD PROCEDURE
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - HYDRAULIC STANDARD PROCEDURE - FLUID LEVEL
PRESSURE TESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 CHECK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - CLUTCH AIR STANDARD PROCEDURE - FLUID/FILTER
PRESSURE TESTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - FLUID STANDARD PROCEDURE - TRANSMISSION
LEAKAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 FILL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
STANDARD PROCEDURE - ALUMINUM GEARSHIFT CABLE
THREAD REPAIR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
DISASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 HOLDING CLUTCHES
ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
SCHEMATICS AND DIAGRAMS - 42RLE INPUT CLUTCH ASSEMBLY
TRANSMISSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 DISASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
SPECIFICATIONS ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
42RLE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION . . . . . . 101 INPUT SPEED SENSOR
SPECIAL TOOLS DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
42RLE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION . . . . . . 103 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
ACCUMULATOR REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 OIL PUMP
ADAPTER HOUSING SEAL DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 DISASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
BEARINGS ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
ADJUSTMENTS OUTPUT SPEED SENSOR
BEARING ADJUSTMENT PROCEDURES . . . 106 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
BRAKE TRANSMISSION SHIFT INTERLOCK OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
MECHANISM REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 OVERDRIVE SWITCH
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
ADJUSTMENTS REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
ADJUSTMENT - BRAKE TRANSMISSION INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
SHIFT INTERLOCK CABLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 PLANETARY GEARTRAIN
DRIVING CLUTCHES DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 OIL PUMP SEAL
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
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SHIFT MECHANISM TRANSMISSION CONTROL RELAY

DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
DIAGNOSIS AND TESTING - SHIFT TRANSMISSION RANGE SENSOR
MECHANISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
ADJUSTMENTS - SHIFT MECHANISM . . . . . . 137 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
SOLENOID REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 TRANSMISSION TEMPERATURE SENSOR
SOLENOID/PRESSURE SWITCH ASSY DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 VALVE BODY
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
TORQUE CONVERTER REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
DESCRIPTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 DISASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 ASSEMBLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
REMOVAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - Con t rol of t he t r a ns mission is accomplished by

fully adaptive elect ronics. Optim u m shift scheduling
42RLE is accomplished t h rough con tin uou s real-time sensor
feedback infor m a tion provided to t he Tr a nsmission
DESCRIPTION Con t rol Module (TCM) portion of t he Power t r ain
The 42RLE (Fig. 1) is a fou r-speed t r a n smission Con t rol Mod ule (PCM).
t h a t is a conven tion al hydr a ulic/mech a nical assembly The TCM is t he hea r t of t he elect ronic cont rol sys-
con t rolled wit h ad ap tive elect ronic con t rols a nd mon- tem a nd relies on infor m a tion from va rious direct
itors. The hydr a ulic sys tem of t he t r a nsmission con- a nd indirect inp u ts (sensor s, switches, etc.) to deter-
sis ts of t he t r a ns mission fluid, fluid passages, mine driver dem a n d a n d vehicle oper a ting condi-
hydr a ulic valves, a n d va rious line p ressu re con t rol tions. Wit h t his infor m a tion, t he TCM ca n calcula te
com ponen ts. An inpu t clu tch a ssembly which houses a nd perfor m timely a n d qu ality s hifts t h rough va ri-
t he u nderdrive, over drive, a nd reverse clu tches is ou s ou tpu t or con t rol devices (solenoid pack, t r a ns-
used. It also u tilizes sep a r a te holding clu tches: 2nd/ mission con t rol relay, etc.).
4t h gea r a nd Low/Reverse. The prim a ry mech a nical The TCM also perfor m s cer t ain self-diagnostic
com ponen ts of t he t r a nsmission con sist of t he follow- fu nctions a n d p rovides comp reh en sive infor m a tion
ing: (sen sor d a t a, DTC’s, etc.) which is helpful in proper
Th ree m ultiple disc in pu t clu tches diagnosis a n d repair. This infor m a tion ca n be viewed
Two m ultiple disc holding clu tches wit h t he DRB sca n tool.
Fou r hydr a ulic accu m ula tors
Two pla net a ry gea r sets
Hydr a ulic oil pu m p
Valve body
Solenoid/P ressu re switch assembly