What am I missing?

I bought an US X Type 2003 with no reverse because it drove fine in forward. I had a bad wheel speed sensor communicator cable which knocked out ABS and traction control. It shifted nicely all the way home, 250 away.

I made a circuit board and got a plug from the recycling yard, hooked it up, checked the resistance on all solenoids and sensors. They were within recommend range. I did the same for the position communicator lines. All were good. The battery was new in 2013 and still holds 13 volts. Unfortunately I did not find anything wrong.

I drained the trany fluid and when I did the plug had no magnet, yet there was a place, a cavity drilled for it. I was also unable to find an overflow that did not drain the entire transfer case. You can see the drain plug and level-check plugs in the photo.

After draining, I replaced the same volume with fresh new fluid, IDEMITSUK K-17. After that something new; fault lights such as turbine speed. Except for Drive, 2nd, 3rd and 4th only pushed the vehicle, adding or maintaining speed, otherwise coasting. For example; RPMs reduce to idle speed as I was going down hill at 40mph.

I bought the 9 solenoids, installed them and checked the resistance before remounting the pan. Every thing was good. I screwed the pan back in place with a fresh new gasket and checked the various gears. Now it goes forward in every setting except park. To be clear, it goes forward in reverse.

At this point it has no faults or engine lights, even though it goes forward in the reverse. I think it is in forward even in park, it's just locked in place. As fare as the computer knows, everything is as it should be.

I figured the little round rear-reverse gasket slipped when I put the module back into place or more likely, the manual shift valve did not line up with the corresponding shift pin. So, I took the pan off again and removed the module. And tried again. I am sure I got the reverse gasket in place but not so convinced about the manual shift valve, even though I used a clevis pin both times, removing the clevis after remounting the module.

Tomorrow is a new day. What should I try next? This car has only 50,159 miles on it.

 

Welcome.

I strongly suggest reposting this in the X Type section, where you will get answers.

Not all members come in here to welcome new members, hence the title.

One of the Moderators will slide by real soon and move it for you, if you have time to wait.

I have NO answers for your query.

 

Welcome to Jaguar Forums X Type 2003,

Good to have you with us.
Strange indeed, I've copied your post to the tech section you can find it here https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...everse-153783/
Enjoy the forum.

If you haven't done so already you should add your car details to your signature to help others to help you.
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welcome to the forum - enjoy!!

 

No Reverse? I Hate it when that happens.
We have a very active X-type section here, where I'm sure they'll be able to help you with that.

Welcome to the forums from ElinorB.
(';')

 

I agree. But, I'm not sure where to go from here.

 

I dint know how I got here and I don't know where to go.

 

Welcome aboard.

 

Follow the link in post #3

 

Welcome to the forum

 

I'd be glad to do it. Do you have a link?

 

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Doubtless they'll be able to help you out.
(';')

 

Welcome to the forum X Type 2003,

Follow this link to the copy of your post in X-Type tech forum:

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...everse-153783/

Enjoy the forums.

Graham

 

I hate to be the bad guy, but this site needs a lot of work. It must must have an extremely low retention rate and an enormous drop out rate. It is nice to be welcome, but I don't think that is what brings people to this site. Your connections to your database and queries should be doing much more for you and the people hoping to fix their Jaguars.

 

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