What is this part??
#1
What is the purpose of the electrical part located on the drivers side strut wall?
It looks like some kind of resistor. I may have damaged mine by accident.
How can I check to make sure it is working properly?
Thanks
Nick
It looks like some kind of resistor. I may have damaged mine by accident.
How can I check to make sure it is working properly?
Thanks
Nick
#2
Originally posted by Nicks98gle
What is the purpose of the electrical part located on the drivers side strut wall?
It looks like some kind of resistor. I may have damaged mine by accident.
How can I check to make sure it is working properly?
Thanks
Nick
What is the purpose of the electrical part located on the drivers side strut wall?
It looks like some kind of resistor. I may have damaged mine by accident.
How can I check to make sure it is working properly?
Thanks
Nick
#3
It is a dropping resistor for transmission control. I measured mine which is about 12 Ohm. Daniel and some other people know much better. I just learned from them. Kind of remember someone tried unplug the connector and found the transmission shifts abruptly.
#4
Originally posted by jiaxima96
It is a dropping resistor for transmission control. I measured mine which is about 12 Ohm. Daniel and some other people know much better. I just learned from them. Kind of remember someone tried unplug the connector and found the transmission shifts abruptly.
It is a dropping resistor for transmission control. I measured mine which is about 12 Ohm. Daniel and some other people know much better. I just learned from them. Kind of remember someone tried unplug the connector and found the transmission shifts abruptly.
Car shifts OK, but a little too soft for my taste. I will check the resistance when I get a chance.
I assume that when the shop manual states, that if this dropping resistor is broken, a "hard" shift is noticed. They mean that there is no resistance(0 ohms)on the transmission circuit.
Theroetically if this is true, then a higher resistance of this resistor above the 12.6 ohms, should produce a softer shift.
Has anyone encounter or verified such a phenomeon?
Its such a strange place to put such a electrical component in the engine compartment, it almost looks like it was an after thought.
Thanks
Nick
#5
Read "How To Make A Shift Control for Your Auto Transmission" to see what Ben Garner did.
http://bgarner.tripod.com/1995nissanmaxima/id3.html
http://bgarner.tripod.com/1995nissanmaxima/id3.html
#6
Originally posted by Daniel B. Martin
Read "How To Make A Shift Control for Your Auto Transmission" to see what Ben Garner did.
http://bgarner.tripod.com/1995nissanmaxima/id3.html
Read "How To Make A Shift Control for Your Auto Transmission" to see what Ben Garner did.
http://bgarner.tripod.com/1995nissanmaxima/id3.html
You would definitely know if it was messed up. The thing shifts HARD.
#8
Tranny shfiting control
I'm not certain, but I think you may have this backwards. If an electrical connection is broken, then the resistance across it is infinite, like a billion ohms. So the broken resistor increased resistance from 12 kilo-ohms to a billion.
Since you may have damaged your unit, given your observations, you may have reduced your resistance, equivalent to replacing the resistor with a straight wire, letting the electricity flow freely. In that case your resistance went down from 12 kilo-ohms to zero.
DW
Since you may have damaged your unit, given your observations, you may have reduced your resistance, equivalent to replacing the resistor with a straight wire, letting the electricity flow freely. In that case your resistance went down from 12 kilo-ohms to zero.
DW
Originally posted by Nicks98gle
Thanks for the info gentlemen.
Car shifts OK, but a little too soft for my taste. I will check the resistance when I get a chance.
I assume that when the shop manual states, that if this dropping resistor is broken, a "hard" shift is noticed. They mean that there is no resistance(0 ohms)on the transmission circuit.
Theroetically if this is true, then a higher resistance of this resistor above the 12.6 ohms, should produce a softer shift.
Has anyone encounter or verified such a phenomeon?
Its such a strange place to put such a electrical component in the engine compartment, it almost looks like it was an after thought.
Thanks
Nick
Thanks for the info gentlemen.
Car shifts OK, but a little too soft for my taste. I will check the resistance when I get a chance.
I assume that when the shop manual states, that if this dropping resistor is broken, a "hard" shift is noticed. They mean that there is no resistance(0 ohms)on the transmission circuit.
Theroetically if this is true, then a higher resistance of this resistor above the 12.6 ohms, should produce a softer shift.
Has anyone encounter or verified such a phenomeon?
Its such a strange place to put such a electrical component in the engine compartment, it almost looks like it was an after thought.
Thanks
Nick
#10
When I posted the first message my PC seemed stuck so I didn't see Daniel's reply before I submitted. Sorry for the unecessary repeat.
I measured my dropping resistor. It is 12 Ohm, not 12 KOhm.
Perhaps some day I'll replace it with a potentiometer, adjust its value and check the shifting. Or make it on the dash board for "programmable" shifting (just kidding).
I measured my dropping resistor. It is 12 Ohm, not 12 KOhm.
Perhaps some day I'll replace it with a potentiometer, adjust its value and check the shifting. Or make it on the dash board for "programmable" shifting (just kidding).
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