So much easier and cheaper to find a U-Pull it lot and simply swap trannies. If my life depended on it, I would not open an automatic transmission on a vehicle built after ~1990. The sense of accomplishment after finishing this job is awesome. I dip the steels in ATF as they go in too. I haven’t done a Pilot 5-speed, but I’ve been into a few others from Ford and GM and as long as you have good instructions to read and follow, the job isn’t bad at all.īe sure the area where you assemble the trans is as clean as possible, and when you take the new frictions out of the package, put them into a clean bucket with a lid and fresh ATF, and let ‘em soak. Just show your wife the shop estimate and you can justify all sorts of neat stuff! I recommend getting a good set of dial calipers from Mitutoyo or another good manufacturer. Sometimes there are work-arounds, sometimes used tools are available on eBay. You’ll also find out about any special service tools needed. Somebody wrote the service manual, it would be worth finding one and seeing exactly what you’re getting into. They write professional quality manuals such as would be found in a transmission shop. I looked on the ATSG (Automatic Transmission Service Group) site, hoping they would have the overhaul manual but no luck. Determining that, as the books all say, is left as an exercise for the student, but in this case, is also a very personal decision. The real point is which path costs the least, at an acceptable risk of negative outcome. I don't doubt that you can rebuild a transmission yourself. If you can afford the time and money, and are comfortable with the odds of still having a dead Pilot when you're done, it might be a fun, cost-effective project.įor me, unless it really looked like fun, and the sheer joy of becoming acquainted with the insides of a Honda 5-speed was a big draw, I would take the "reliably working Pilot for $4k" deal. If you would spend $4k for your Pilot in reliable running condition, that might be a good deal.įor some other number plus your time, you can get a known broken transmission with a rebuild kit installed, and a lower certainty that it will work, much less work for 3 years. Only new dollars matter.įor some number, let's say $4k, you can get a rebuilt transmission with a 3-year warranty and almost 100% certainty it will still work at the end of the warranty period. I think this is a classic engineering "build vs.
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