MAXA & BAXA USED TRANS SWAP
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MAXA & BAXA USED TRANS SWAP
**I originally posted this in a thread under the 6th generation Accord Tech section but, I'm thinking I might find more help in the Transmission section**
Hi, I'm going to continue to update this post for other/future Honda newbies like me that have some transmission confusions. So, I have a California ULEV 2001 Honda Accord 132K, I bought it with a broken automatic transmission and I'm in Connecticut. I pulled the transmission out and it turns out that I have a MAXA (Japan) transmission. I looked around locally and could not find a MAXA trans so, I bought a BAXA (USA) transmission for $400 bucks. I've read on this forum and other places that the Japan trans may or some may not use use different sensors and the sensor plugs would not fit. I found out today doing a side by side comparison of both transmissions that the sensors appear to be the same and they do plug into each other. IDK if the BAXA sensors will work on my MAXA car but, they at least plug in and I could swap sensors later if there is an issue....hope not. I plan on installing the transmission tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. I'll update this thread on my progress. Here's a video I made of the 2 trans side by side comparison...it goes through sensor by sensor check. The video is pretty much of whit stated above. If anyone has additional knowledge please post and help us out.
Thanks,
Gene
Hi, I'm going to continue to update this post for other/future Honda newbies like me that have some transmission confusions. So, I have a California ULEV 2001 Honda Accord 132K, I bought it with a broken automatic transmission and I'm in Connecticut. I pulled the transmission out and it turns out that I have a MAXA (Japan) transmission. I looked around locally and could not find a MAXA trans so, I bought a BAXA (USA) transmission for $400 bucks. I've read on this forum and other places that the Japan trans may or some may not use use different sensors and the sensor plugs would not fit. I found out today doing a side by side comparison of both transmissions that the sensors appear to be the same and they do plug into each other. IDK if the BAXA sensors will work on my MAXA car but, they at least plug in and I could swap sensors later if there is an issue....hope not. I plan on installing the transmission tomorrow and we'll see how it goes. I'll update this thread on my progress. Here's a video I made of the 2 trans side by side comparison...it goes through sensor by sensor check. The video is pretty much of whit stated above. If anyone has additional knowledge please post and help us out.
Thanks,
Gene
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