Auto Box question ? Can you program the box ECU ?

I wonder ,, the trans ECU is it a learning type ,,,
if so in going to make a relay in line so when the car goes to sleep it disconects the ecu and makes it learn again ,,,,,

no good disabling power for a few hours you need time for the capacitors to discharge


a quick way is to disconnect both bat terminals and touch both positive and negative together this discharges all capacitors in the system


not only the transmission ecu but also the engine ecu

When i checked the engine ecu for oil ingress the big cap`s in there were massive ,,
I have a master battery switch so may just turn off for a few days every now and then .

do you still have egr active ? oil is not conductive but carbon is.. when I changed my injector harness I also removed the rubber seals from the ecu plug... this may found funny but I wrapped one of my wifes fanny pads around the red plug this has soaked up all oil that was left in the system it was approx. a 6 month process and changed the fanny pads twice


the rubber seals need to be removed for this to work


don't throw them away they get installed once the ecu plugs are clean

Thats a great idea ,, will try the pads ,,,, when i did the loom i put 200ml of metho in a coke bottle ,, im sure a pepsi bottle will be ok , and pushed the loom plug < engine end into the bottle and let the metho work its way thru the wires ,, only took till the morning and clear meth was coming out the red plug

then i blew out with a compressor and as you say
REMOVE THE GASKET
and then the rest of the meth and oil just drips out over time ,,, i also did the same a week later with no oil showing ,,,,
there is oil in the injector connectors but as they are not fluid tight i dont see a way to stop ,,,
I didnt have a new rocker gasket on hand so i have ordered a new one ,, :D

oh forgot ,,, no EGR ,, am looking at a breather filter at the moment ,,anyone have a pref to a good one

I have never tried the metho trick


but I work with these issues all day at work pressure will always go to the weakest link


the capillary action works different ie hot cold hot cold


oil will always want to travel to cold once it gets into the ecu harness it then takes a detour.. I left my injector harness that long I also had oil coming from the MAF sensor I failed to mention this but I removed the seal and also rapped around a fanny pad on this also

as for the catch can on a breather system the only system I have seen work 100% is those found on Volvo trucks they use oil pressure to spin a spinner filter while breather gasses enter though another chamber


those cheap catch can with baffles will only catch about 50 to 60 %


a cheaper catch can with some wire wool installed catch about 60 %


other wise drop the breather straight to atmosphere = 100 %

For the most part I'm pretty happy with how it shifts, except that around town I stick it in third and it seems a lot happier.

I used to live about 15km outside of Proserpine, and driving home along the highway was a small hill, just far enough out of town that I reached it as the engine warmed up pretty much every day on the way home. As I would drive up the hill, the box would lock up in 4th, effectively going up a ratio or gear. The TD5 would drop revs in a very satisfactory way, and continue to power up the hill without needing even the slightest kick to keep going. Very nice :)

just to confirm


I was driving back from work today I was doing 100 kph convertor lock up I slowly start to press the acc peddle and got boost to sit at 10 psi my speed climbed up to 120 /130 KPH so I decided to press the peddle a little further got it to sit at 15 psi speedo climbed to 135 and kept pulling to 140 kph


any thing over 15 psi travelling at these speeds the torque convertor will unlock and then its just all revs ..it will hold the same speed some times drops off to 125 kph but engine just revs its ring out until you come off boost and allow the toque convertor to lock back up again


rob where do you have your boost gauge getting its reading from