Hi Everybody,
Thanks for any advice you could throw my way. 1999 DOHC with AX4N. When engine is cold trans works fine. After about 20 miles, leaving a stop trans won't shift out of first. I let off the gas and after the rpms come down it shifts and then okay from there. Fluid is clean and on the lower end of the crosshatch but is still within the good zone. My code reader will not show trans codes and I only have the 171 and 174 which I know is probably a vacuum leak. I may stop at a local trans shop on the way home tomorrow and see if they will tell me what codes they find. I am going to bring the fluid up a little to get it farther up on the cross hatched area. I had this trans rebuilt about two years ago and it has been okay since. I am wondering if the VSS could be causing this? The speedometer and tach work fine. I would think if it did it would happen all the time. I also think that if it was a sticking shift solenoid it would happen when it was cold sometimes. Any ideas? Also if I decide to change the solenoids, when you take off the side cover does the trans fluid drain out or is that area of the transmission not have fluid in it? Thanks.
Ed
Thanks for any advice you could throw my way. 1999 DOHC with AX4N. When engine is cold trans works fine. After about 20 miles, leaving a stop trans won't shift out of first. I let off the gas and after the rpms come down it shifts and then okay from there. Fluid is clean and on the lower end of the crosshatch but is still within the good zone. My code reader will not show trans codes and I only have the 171 and 174 which I know is probably a vacuum leak. I may stop at a local trans shop on the way home tomorrow and see if they will tell me what codes they find. I am going to bring the fluid up a little to get it farther up on the cross hatched area. I had this trans rebuilt about two years ago and it has been okay since. I am wondering if the VSS could be causing this? The speedometer and tach work fine. I would think if it did it would happen all the time. I also think that if it was a sticking shift solenoid it would happen when it was cold sometimes. Any ideas? Also if I decide to change the solenoids, when you take off the side cover does the trans fluid drain out or is that area of the transmission not have fluid in it? Thanks.
Ed