Hey Greg. I did this about a year and a half ago, and I ran into trouble finding components as well. But i eventually found some great tantalum caps. They are wet tantalums, with a temperature rating of 400 F !! They have all different sizes, I went with 50 V, 10 uF. They are small enough to fit into the computer boards without any problems. One thing though, they were very expensive: $20 dollars per cap!!! But these are great caps, same ones used by the military and NASA. Here's the link. And I ordered them through the distribution company called Avnet. The links to distributors are on the site too. Good luck. Adam Price http://www.vishay.com/products/capacitors/tantalum.html --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Greg Linstad <greglinstad@xxxx> wrote: > In the dmcnews archives Mark Hershey wrote an excellent article with > pictures about the rework done to the boards and identifying the > replacement components. I have been searching for the tantalum caps he > listed, but am having difficulty locating metal ones like the ones > shown. I can easily get the correct values ( 4.7 to 10 microfarad, 20 to > 50 volt) but not in metal, only epoxy (yellow) in radial or axial leads. > I'm looking now in a Digikey catalog and see what looks like metal, but > says ceramic. Also, solid tantalum, 'wet slug', tantalum capacitors or > tantalum electrolytic capacitors, molded solid tantalum, please you EE > guys help a ME out, I'm on thin ice here. Are they all the same except > for size and rating? > Also, the .1uf caps on the back side of the board I can only find epoxy > and no voltage is identified. > Earth to Mark Hershey. I tried your phone number listed in the DOD, it > didn't work. > This is the first automatic transmission I have ever worked on, and one > of the caps is 'blown' like shown in Mark's write up. The car is my new > VIN# 6214 with only 9,600 miles. > > Greg Linstad > pndc.org > VIN# 3507 "RUSTLSS" > VIN# 6214 "RUSTLS2"