Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 08:57 am, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
When I start up my newly acquired Active V8, on a cold engine, the auto engages ok but it disengages itself as I slowly drive in reverse out of my garage. If I put in back into drive it takes time to engage. I have to wait a couple of seconds for it to engage properly. When I have reversed out onto the street, ready to drive away, it takes time to engage drive. It seems to be fine once it is warm.
I have done a complete 12 litre slush and conditioner. No difference. It drives and changes gears fine.
what is wrong? Is this sticky seals or is this what happens when you have a solenoid problem?
thanks for any advice.
Dan McColl Goo Roo Victoria (The Nazi State) Pretty Red Thing and The Black Rattler
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 08:58 pm, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
I do hope it is not the box Boris. Surely it would not perform properly when warm if it was the box itself? If I need a box the V8 takes A341E as far as I know. How much would I expect to pay for one?
Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 11:42 pm, by: Boris Siljanoski(Z2tt)
I thought you had a 1jz box my fault, i do have a set of Solenoids if the 1uz and 1jz ones are the same.
Solenoids do not control shifting into Park to Drive mode, it is controlled by a Rod in the valve body that is moved when you move your gear shifter. Something inside the gearbox is problematic.
John Stafford TryHard Qld. Soarer UZZ31 GT-L V8 and a UZZ32 # 514
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 09:22 pm, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
If it is a rod in the gear box, does that mean a total strip down and rebuild. Sounds expensive. Seeing as the car has not been used for a while, I am hoping that as I drive it this issue will right itself
I don't think that the solenoids are the same, Tom should know the answer to that one.
Tom, thanks for those links but the first one didn't seem to go where we wanted and the second one kept stalling on me. I will try the second one again if need be.
Friday, August 31, 2012 - 09:25 am, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
Thanks Tom, I went to rock auto, where I buy most things from and found that the American Lexus SC400 has the same box as the twin turbo (A340). You have to look up the LS400 to get the A341E box. The solenoids were $178 Plus about $27 delivery here for both boxes, so I just typed in transmission solenoid for A341E in google and got Makco transmission parts where the kit with 2 valves was $139, good saving but overseas orders have to be manually lodged, not sure of freight cost as I didn't go that far on the site.
If I need them this seems a good place to get them from.
Sunday, September 02, 2012 - 06:10 pm, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
Does that mean that a 5 speed American auto box can be fitted without mods to one of our 4 ltr soarers? Interesting as one of the guys on here has put a 6 speed auto on his 32 and says it makes it fly. Food for thought, hey.
John Stafford TryHard Qld. Soarer UZZ31 GT-L V8 and a UZZ32 # 514
Sunday, September 23, 2012 - 08:25 am, by: John Stafford(Johng12)
Fixed!! Used Lucas trans fix and found that I didn't have enough fluid in so that when it went down an incline, my driveway, it took time to pump enough fluid to make the change to drive from reverse. Great now.