anyone know what this thing is or does?

[legacy2]

this little thing gets hot to the touch when the car runs for like a minute, what does it do and is it supposed to get hot

[91White-T]

Thats the dropping resistor, its a trans. electronics part. It gets hot.

[Legacy777]

It absorbs power from the TCU for line shift pressure.

If you look at this diagram, you can see it ties into the line pressure solenoid.

[dzx]

where's the diagram?

[Legacy777]

ooops

http://www.surrealmirage.com/subaru/fil ... ntrol2.jpg

[legacy94]

for some reason i thought it was that thingy that you'd put a fuse in to switch an awd auto to fwd for service reasons.but then again i just looked in the owners manual,showing were it's located.