Caution: Ensure that the vehicle is properly supported and squarely positioned. To help avoid personal injury when a vehicle is on a hoist, provide additional support for the vehicle on the opposite end from which the components are being removed.

1. Position the vehicle on a hoist and raise the vehicle. Refer to Lifting and Jacking the Vehicle in General Information.
2. Remove the left wheel and tire assembly.



3. Remove left splash shield.



4. Remove the front pitch restrictor-to-transaxle bolts.



5. Remove the front pitch restrictor through-bolt and the pitch restrictor.



6. Remove the transaxle oil cooler lines from the transaxle.

6.1.	Place a drain pan or suitable container under vehicle.

6.2.	Remove the transaxle oil cooler line assembly nut from transaxle.

6.3.	Remove the transaxle oil cooler lines from the vehicle.




7. Remove the 9  TORX bolts from the control valve body cover.

Important: Do not damage the transaxle control valve body cover, case or sealing surfaces.

8. Remove control valve body cover.

1. Clean any gasket material from the control valve body cover and inspect the gasket mounting surface.
2. Install RTV sealer Saturn P/N 89020326 onto the control valve body cover.



3. Install the control valve body cover onto the transaxle case.

Important: Use LOCTITE™ 242 thread sealer on ALL bolt threads.

4. Install the 9 control valve body cover bolts/screws hand tight.

Notice: Refer to Fastener Notice in the Preface section.




5. Tighten the 9 control valve body bolts/screws in the sequence shown.

Tighten
Tighten the control valve body cover bolts/screws to 13 N·m(10 lb-in).




6. Install the transaxle oil cooler line assembly to the transaxle.
7. Install the transaxle oil cooler line assembly nut.

Tighten
Tighten the transaxle oil cooler line nut to 7 N·m(62 lb-in)




8. Install the front pitch restrictor and the through-bolt.

Tighten
Tighten the front pitch restrictor bolts to 50 N·m(37 ft-lb)




9. Install the left-hand splash shield.
10. Install the left wheel and the tire assembly.
11. Install the wheel nuts and tighten in a criss-cross pattern.

Tighten
Tighten the wheel nuts to 125 N·m(92 lb-ft)

12. Lower the vehicle.

Notice: Saturn automatic transaxle fluid (ATF), P/N 21005966 and P/N 21019223, is not compatible with this transaxle. If Saturn ATF is used, transaxle damage will result. This transaxle uses Saturn T-IV fluid P/N 22689186.

13. Add fluid to the transaxle. refer to Transmission Fluid Replacement procedure located in this service manual.

Important: It is recommended that transmission adaptive pressure (TAP) information be reset.

Resetting the TAP values using a scan tool will erase all learned values in all cells. As a result, The ECM, PCM or TCM will need to relearn TAP values. Transmission performance may be affected as new TAP values are learned.
14. Reset the TAP values. Refer to Transmission Adaptive Functions .