4L60E Stuck Connectors (Glue?)
Hey guys, I have a question for my first post to the group.
First some background on me. I don't mechanic for a living, but am a Master Electrician working on industrial process control equip in a natural gas treating plant. I was born and raised in the West Texas Oil Fields and fortunate enough to have a Dad that showed me how to fix my own bicycle as soon as I learned how to ride it as well as the car, etc. as I got older and he taught me anything he knew. He couldn't afford to race, but we would go to the drag races to watch as far back as I can remember. (Anybody remember watching Dickey Harrell race?) In High School I had, still do as a matter of fact, a friend who's dad was an old drag racer and owns a transmission shop. Another close friend who also worked for him is now my brother-in-law. I hung around there a lot and picked up how to rebuild trannys and hot rod motors. I have built quite a few TH350/400's and some C4/C6's but haven't had the ability to do any ECM/TCM related work until now, mainly because I didn't have the diagnostic tools necessary to do them properly. At least until last weeks delivery from EFILive and the FedEx "Bird of Happiness".
Now for my question--
Anybody ever run into this problem before? After 265,000 miles I finally had to shutdown and rebuild the transmission in my 1999 Silverado 4WD 5.3L LM7 4L60E. In the process of disconnecting all the sensor plugs on the txfr case/trans everything is going fine until I get to the shifter position sensor plugs. When I finally got them disconnected, the position sensor is in pieces and I am even having to pull some of the pins out of the plugs with a pair of pliers.
While inspecting the plugs they both looked like they had a layer of some sort of clear "adhesive" on them that basically glued them into the sockets. Other than the foreign substance in the plugs they looked fine. The "glue" seems to be too hard to be silicone. Did GM use any sealing compounds on these, other than the little molded 3 lip red silicone seal on the plugs, that maybe dried out somehow and acted like glue? The truck had 21k miles on it when I bought it in 2001 so anything could have happened to it between the factory and when I got it. Just curious.
I have a new position sensor coming for it for when I get back home next week to finish stacking clutches and getting things back together. After that I will likely have some more questions about getting my FlashScan unit going.
Thanks
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