Honda Element. Manual - part 288

Fig. 518: Disassembled View Of 4th Clutch Drum 
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17. Install the waved spring (A) in the 5th clutch drum (B). Starting with the clutch wave-plate, alternately 

install the clutch wave-plates (C) (4) and clutch discs (D) (4), then install the clutch end-plate (E) with the 
flat side toward the disc. 

Fig. 519: Disassembled View Of 5th Clutch Drum 
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18. Install the snap ring with a screwdriver. 

 

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2007-2008 TRANSMISSION Automatic Transmission - Element

  

Fig. 520: Installing Snap Ring With Screwdriver 
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19. Check that the clutch piston moves by applying air pressure into fluid passage.  

VALVE BODY AND ATF STRAINER INSTALLATION 

1. Make sure that the ATF magnet is cleaned and installed in the torque converter housing. 

NOTE:

The illustration shows the 4WD transmission; the 2WD transmission is similar.

 

2007 Honda Element EX 

2007-2008 TRANSMISSION Automatic Transmission - Element

  

Fig. 521: Disassembled View Of Valve Body And ATF Strainer With Torque Specifications 
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2. Install the main separator plate (A) and two dowel pins on the torque converter housing. Then install the 

ATF pump drive gear (B), driven gear (C), and ATF pump driven gear shaft (D). Install the ATF pump 
driven gear with its grooved and chamfered side facing down. 

 

2007 Honda Element EX 

2007-2008 TRANSMISSION Automatic Transmission - Element

  

Fig. 522: Identifying ATF Pump Drive Gear, Driven Gear And ATF Pump Driven Gear Shaft 
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3. Install the main valve body.  

4. Make sure the ATF pump drive gear (A) rotates smoothly in the normal operating direction, and the ATF 

pump driven gear shaft (B) moves smoothly in the axial and normal operating direction. 

Fig. 523: Rotating ATF Pump Drive Gear Smoothly 
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5. If the ATF pump drive gear and ATF pump driven gear shaft do not move smoothly, loosen the main 

valve body bolts. Realign the ATF pump driven gear shaft, and retighten the bolts to the specified torque, 
then recheck. Failure to align the ATF pump driven gear shaft correctly will result in a seized ATF pump 
drive gear or ATF pump driven gear shaft.  

6. Make sure that the two check balls and the cooler check valve are in the main valve body, then install the 

cooler check valve spring in the cooler check valve.  

7. Install the servo separator plate and two dowel pins on the main valve body.  

8. Install the servo body (12 bolts). Install the ATF strainer with the two bolts in the bolt holes (A) in step 

12, and install the baffle plate with the two bolts in the bolt holes (B) (see step 2 ). 

 

2007 Honda Element EX 

2007-2008 TRANSMISSION Automatic Transmission - Element