The PooPrah: 87-NA-Automatic
My car has been shifting retardedly for the last few months, and I've been too busy to actually go down in my new garage and read the code - I just bought a house, got engaged - so my life has been really hectic lately.
The code that's being read is #63 - saying that it's a "Severed No. 2 solenoid or short circuit - severed wire harness or short circuit" according to the TSRM.
Where do I go from here? I'm guessing that either my TPS is screwed up, or it's my ECT Computer outright - as the TRSM talks about checking voltage at the ECT ECU. The last time I had "early shifting" and "no downshifting" problems it was the TPS. I got another one off a Cressida at the junkyard, wham bang boom, problem solved. This time, the car will downshift - but it seems like it's skipping either 1st or 2nd gear - when I put it into "2" it's really in 3rd gear, it seems. When it's in "D" that's really "OD" - and the "OD" on off button doesn't really affect the transmission at all, when depressed or released.
All of this crap just started happening since the last time I unhooked my battery cable - what gives? What's the first thing YOU would check? Anyone else ever pulled one of these codes? Maybe some connector somewhere is corroded? Recently the wires going to my starter were all corroded inside the connectors, and that stopped my car from starting. Thank goodness the starter didn't actually go, because that would have been a really hard job to replace it.
My car has been shifting retardedly for the last few months, and I've been too busy to actually go down in my new garage and read the code - I just bought a house, got engaged - so my life has been really hectic lately.
The code that's being read is #63 - saying that it's a "Severed No. 2 solenoid or short circuit - severed wire harness or short circuit" according to the TSRM.
Where do I go from here? I'm guessing that either my TPS is screwed up, or it's my ECT Computer outright - as the TRSM talks about checking voltage at the ECT ECU. The last time I had "early shifting" and "no downshifting" problems it was the TPS. I got another one off a Cressida at the junkyard, wham bang boom, problem solved. This time, the car will downshift - but it seems like it's skipping either 1st or 2nd gear - when I put it into "2" it's really in 3rd gear, it seems. When it's in "D" that's really "OD" - and the "OD" on off button doesn't really affect the transmission at all, when depressed or released.
All of this crap just started happening since the last time I unhooked my battery cable - what gives? What's the first thing YOU would check? Anyone else ever pulled one of these codes? Maybe some connector somewhere is corroded? Recently the wires going to my starter were all corroded inside the connectors, and that stopped my car from starting. Thank goodness the starter didn't actually go, because that would have been a really hard job to replace it.
