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Won't shift into 3rd, 2nd or 1st

 

Working on my sisters 1997 EVC. Driving it from Austin to San Antonio was shifting fine. As I got off at my exit it tried to down shift automatically to first, very strange. Then ran really poorly for a few blocks, didn't want to shift and had little power. Got home, turned it off, waited a while, started right up, shifts into reverse and drive, but when I try to go into 3rd or lower, the button on the shifter is frozen and it won't shift. Have brake lights, and since it comes out of Park and into Reverse or Drive I don't suspect the brake switch. Is there another switch that could have gone bad that prevents it going into the lower gears? Or is the problem probably in the shifting mechanism (which was working just fine, I had down-shifted to climb a couple of hills on the way home). Any advice as to what may be causing this would be appreciated.
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Scott
1997 EVC
San Antonio
 

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 09:11 PM, Scott 98RD Twin wrote:
Is there another switch that could have gone bad that prevents it going into the lower gears?
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To go from D to 3 or 2, you DON'T press the button.? You press it again to get to 1.? Sometimes it doesn't appear to be that way, but it's just a glitch in your process, possibly having the button partially in.
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Duane
05HD Rialta
229K Miles
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Transmission Shift Button Press/Brake requirements.

Here's the full list...

?BUTTON/BRAKE required:

?P-R

?N-R & N-D

ONLY ?BUTTON required:

?R-P (trust me on this, you probably have the brake on, but not necessary…)

2-1

?3-D <--! (Both my first '02 and the current '03)

?R-N-D-N-R-N-D <- this one for snow or mud!?

It's in the owners manual, book 3.1.1, page 97... need to slip quick thru, at slow speeds 'Rocking the vehicle back and forth' to get unstuck. (Anyone grew up in snow country knows about this!)

??NO BUTTON required:

?R-N

?D-3

?3-2

?1-2 & 2-3

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By the way: There is NO SUCH THING as ‘half-press’ of the button! You’ve either pressed it far enough, or not!

Pressing all the way is NOT required...

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That sounds like Limp Mode to me.? Technically, even though it is in D, it is probably in 3rd gear resulting in slow starting from stop and top speed of 45 or so.
If I'm correct, you'll need to determine the cause of the issue.

http://www.eurovanrescue.com/?s=transmission
My experience with this over the years (multiple incidents)
- the transmission cable on mine melted due to a coolant leak, causing a short, resulting in limp mode (had to cut/connect new section)
- a water damaged TCM - transmission control module (required replacement, found at junk yard)
- the Sport Mode switch on the dash caused erratic shifting behavior (removed it)
- learn the transmission reset procedure as you will need to use it after any attempts to fix (you could even try now in cause your issue is an intermittent one)

Other possibility could just be that your transmission is damaged.
I'm not sure about shifter issues or other ideas, but certainly there could be a lot of other possibilities.

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