Toyota - Liteace 94 2.0 not changing gears

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Fri 13 Jun 2008 00:27
Liteace 94 2.0 not changing gears - canaidianjohn
hi i hope someone can help me?

We bought a import liteace, it ran ok till we got home then over heated, so we were told it needed a new head.
We had it changed, it went ok, then over heated again.
It had a hole in the rad so we had it changed, but they towed it back.
Now we have it home the engine runs ok but no transmision.
Has it got a safe mode on it, because its an automatic and is stuck in third gear when we put it in drive.

We have spent a small fortune and are at our wits end and still no go. Thankyou to anyone that can help us get mobile once more.

{Post slightly reformatted, following SL's comment below}

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 13/06/2008 at 01:33

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Fri 13 Jun 2008 00:51
94 2.0 not changing gears - Screwloose
canadianjohn

That was a nightmare to read and make sense of; what happened to sentences?

If it's just had the radiator changed; then has it lost some transmission fluid? The fluid cooler almost certainly goes through the rad. Have you checked the gearbox dipstick - following the handbook procedure?
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Fri 13 Jun 2008 12:31
94 2.0 not changing gears - canaidianjohn
hi screwloose sorry for my typing,yes it seems like they have overfilled it i will have to drain and start again.
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Fri 13 Jun 2008 13:24
94 2.0 not changing gears - Screwloose

Make sure that you are following the handbook procedure exactly - particularly if it requires the engine to be running.
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