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Originally Posted by MTPockets08
Hey chiody, good to see you here! The reliabilty of that other board is as horrible as these Honda Ody transaxles!  Yup, hopefully your ATF issue was just some spillage from installation and will cease to exist. IMO- the worst part of these Ody trans replacements is; the replacements appear to be units of identical [defective] design as the factory installed! That's just plain wrong. I'm all for regular trans maintenance, but as said, this does not help these units much. As far as I've read/seen, the first major 'redesign' didn't happen until 2007. 2007+ Ody's use a trans derived from the 4x4 Ridgeline. The case is totally different, it has 4 gear shaft as opposed to 3 and the trans ATF filter is different and more user friendly. Hopefully this helps long-term reliability.  My take on year/compatability is; they can't slap a 2007+ trans on the earlier models due to mechanical and electronics changes.
Joel |
Joel,
Apparently the best we can do is to install a good aftermarket filter and tranny cooler with these replacement trannys. I'm contemplating the full size spin on "oil filter" units for ours along with installing the 2400 GVW tranny cooler. May even add on some magnets to the filter bodies. Of course aggressive fluid / filter change schedules will be implemented.
Good to see you here too...
