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1997 Passport Drive Train & Driveline Malfunction

Hi and HNY to you and yours,
I change the starter by disassembling the old starter, removing it, disasembling the new starter, reasemling it in place and then mounted it. I did this because the alternative was removing the exhaust system. It was a tight fit but doable, however I did pull a wire bundle coming from the transmission area about one inch to get it out of the way. So all is done, the thing starts great and I am patting myself on the back. I drive it one mile to a care wash to clean my fingerprints off. It starts fine but the transmission light and the check engine light come on. Now it has very little power and feels like it didn’t down shift from drive to low. I drove it home and left it running for 20 minutes to dry it out if something got wet. Didn’t help...Next morning I let it run for 30 minutes, the lights went out and it drove fine. I gave it back to my friend got the $145.00 for the repair (including starter) and was as pleased as I could be. She drove it to lunch and on her way back it happened again. Very low power and tranny/eng. light came on. I drove it by shifting manually and it worked fine. A few minutes later the lights went out and it shifted fine in automatic. I drove it home OK and emailed you.
Thanks for reading this. Can you suggest anything?
Oggie

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About every tenth stop the automatic transmission fails to downshift.
I shift it manually lo thru drive and it works fine. It may fix itself while I am driving it, or when I park it and come back it works fine.
The check trans and check eng lights come on but not consistently. Sometimes both light come on when the tranny works fine and some times the lights are not on when it fails to down shift.
I had the fluid flushed out and it shifts a lot smother and the frequency of failure is less but the problem is still there. The filter has never been changed.
I had it analyzed at a Honda dealer. They said it has a bad PCM module ($750.00 plus labor= $900.00). I would have been something mechanical or electromechanical like a solenoid but not an intermittent electronic module but then this is where you come in. Can you help me?
Oggie

1997 Passport Drive Train & Driveline Malfunction

The transmission works fine for about 15 minutes or less. Then when I come to a stop the transmission does not down shift. I can down shift manually thru 1st, 2nd, and third but it doesn’t go into the highest gear. If I stomp on it at 30-50MPH it will not down shift.
It will fix itself occasionally but in no predicable way. It may sit for 10 min. and work fine for a while but it always fails in 20 miles or less.

I changed the fluid, the filter, and the PCM (powertrain control module).The Honda dealer trouble shot the "bad"PCM.
Thanks for reading this.
Oggie
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