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Automatic Transmission Components: What are Hard Parts?

Tranny Man — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:57:49 +0000

Brian of GotTransmissions.com and I were talking about exactly what “Hard Parts” are the other day. There may be many use-ages for the term “hard parts”, but we want to focus on transmissions. Both automatic transmissions and standard transmissions use hard parts, although the term is most commonly applied to automatic transmissions.

What is a Planetary Gear Assembly in an Automatic Transmission?

Tranny Man — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:18:43 +0000

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[/caption] The planetary gear train or system is a complicated way of producing different gear ratios inside an automatic transmission. The one pictured is a simple planetary system, which weÂ will try toÂ make sense of:.. there is a wide variety of complicated systems in use today, but they all produce the same effect. Essentially, [...]

TF 604 Automatic Transmission Code: p740 on a Caravan

Tranny Man — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:35:18 +0000

Having owned my own transmission shop from 1981 to 2006 (I sold it) I am more than qualified to discuss a code p740. One of the most common codes too. We recieved this question below and I though it would be a great time to speak on this. Here is the question: “i got a 2001 grand [...]