2000 4runner limited with 180k miles. I've done a drain & fill every 30k miles on it. Fluid has always come out nice and red, never burned. Never milkshaked.
I work in the hills of rural WA and have been taking the 4runner into work more and more recently. It has started behaving weirdly when downshifting while going uphill. When it downshifts into 1 to go up a steep hill, there's a hesitation with no shift and no power for a moment, then what feels like a pop, and then it engages the gear and is fine. I'm getting no codes from the OBDII port, and I did new spark plugs and wires 35k miles ago.
I've also attached a picture of my line pressure ("kickdown" as it's referred to on here) cable from the throttle body. The little nub is inside of the rubber boot. I've moved it outside of the boot before and the shifts are pretty rough so I moved it back inside where it was before I started messing with it.
Has anyone experienced this before? What should I explore doing next?
I work in the hills of rural WA and have been taking the 4runner into work more and more recently. It has started behaving weirdly when downshifting while going uphill. When it downshifts into 1 to go up a steep hill, there's a hesitation with no shift and no power for a moment, then what feels like a pop, and then it engages the gear and is fine. I'm getting no codes from the OBDII port, and I did new spark plugs and wires 35k miles ago.
I've also attached a picture of my line pressure ("kickdown" as it's referred to on here) cable from the throttle body. The little nub is inside of the rubber boot. I've moved it outside of the boot before and the shifts are pretty rough so I moved it back inside where it was before I started messing with it.
Has anyone experienced this before? What should I explore doing next?
