2000 LX470 Transmission Failure | Thread profile

Quote: Originally Posted by uHu "Torque Converter has been modified to improve driveability such as reducing judder during hard braking." I just got this problem on my car, which is pre June 2001. It appears to stay in lock-up when braking. Such that if coming to a halt from a speed higher than the lock-up-limit, the engine will stall. - If you don't manually shift out of D, to either 2 or N. Can it be tested by...

Quote: Originally Posted by KathmanduCruiser Can it be tested by applying hard braking to bring the car to a stop from high speed? Is this a symptom that you can reproduce regularly? What does lock up mean? The time it takes the tranny to shift gears? I would like to test this on my vehicle. A bit late, but... 1 Yes. With OD off (provides lock-up in 3rd) braking from a speed higher than 60 km/h (38 m/h). With OD on, it is harder to reproduce...

Hi If engine dies when A/T is set to move vehicle, it may be the converter hard-coupling engine and transmission - could be converter failure, but I am no A/T expert... Or it could be some electrical signal that is not telling the engine to increase power to maintain the drive... I am not an ECU or what expert either... sorry. Maybe it can be judged by the way the engine dies? Is it very abrubt? The HDJ and the UZ (even until 2002) runs to my...

The Euro TSB is here .... ATM JUDDER TSB at Techdoc Toyota Europe It'll cost someone 3 euros to get the pdf. If you get it, PM me and I'll be sure to post it up in the TSB thread.

I have a 2000 LC that appears to be having a transmission problem. Wife calls and tells me that when she puts the LC in R or D, the engine dies. I go look at it and the engine runs smooth and transmission shifter shifts smooth but once you stop anywhere but P or D the engine dies. We have not had any problems or unusual sounds from the transmission. The LC has 104,000 miles on it and we had an extended Toyota warr. until 100,000. (just my...

Quote: Originally Posted by Pitbull My understanding is that it only affected the 2000 and 2001 model Lexus for sure and maybe the Tundra/LC for 2000 and 2001 and that it was caused by a supplier that they quit using for the 2002 model year. It was a bad run of shim's. Just what I understood. I've never heard of many transmission problems with the 343's or the 442's. I've only seen folks with the 2000 100's...

Great info and great post. Where would one find the date manufactured on the vehicle?

Quote: Originally Posted by KathmanduCruiser This will help in finding the year of manufactur and the sequence of production off the vin number. From the sequence number, I do not know how to extract information about the date it was manufactured. Will take some research..... The month and year of manufacture is written on the sticker in your driver's door jamb. If you're looking for the date of manufacture of the transmission,...

I searched the NHTSA website for TSB's on the 00-01 US-market LC and can't find anything related to the transmission. Anyone else know of anything?