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- Dec 9, 2010
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- Location
- Atlanta, GA
- Vehicle Year
- 1994
- Make / Model
- Mazda
- Engine Size
- 4.0 V6
- Transmission
- Automatic
I'm finally getting around to replacing the vacuum modulator on my 1994 B4000. I've been seeing trans fluid in the vac lines for ages and it keeps making the lines soft and blowing them off at the intake.
I took a quick look under the truck today and I can see the modulator, but I don't think there is any way I can get my hands or tools in there to change it. There's like 1/2"of clearance next to the catalytic converter. Given that the cats are 23 years old I don't think there's any way I'm getting them off without doing serious damage to either them or myself or both.
Can someone please tell me there's another way to change this $15 part without replacing $200 in other parts that don't really need changing and a trip to the ER? Pics would be sweet. The haynes manual is basically worthless and the only mention I can find in the official ford service manual has the entire trans on the bench when the modulator is removed.
I took a quick look under the truck today and I can see the modulator, but I don't think there is any way I can get my hands or tools in there to change it. There's like 1/2"of clearance next to the catalytic converter. Given that the cats are 23 years old I don't think there's any way I'm getting them off without doing serious damage to either them or myself or both.
Can someone please tell me there's another way to change this $15 part without replacing $200 in other parts that don't really need changing and a trip to the ER? Pics would be sweet. The haynes manual is basically worthless and the only mention I can find in the official ford service manual has the entire trans on the bench when the modulator is removed.
