Inspection of a 904 torqueflite

I finally took out the kickdown servo

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The bore was fairly clean and didn’t have any irregular wear pattern to it-


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But the servo piston was covered in black sludge. I’m guessing this doesn’t cycle fluid as much as the rest of the transmission.
Stuff like this is what I took this down so far. I also wanted to understand it. -


I’m going to start cleaning the parts with mineral spirits.