Re: Transmission computer parts?

["Adam <acprice1@xxxx>" <acprice1@xxxx>]

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"