[Automatic transmission stopped shifting farther than 1st gear but does get into park, reverse, drive, just doesn't upshift]

35 minutes ago, fred heath said:

Detention Cable.
 

    I know some members have had trouble finding this cable as it’s been discontinued. I pulled this quote from another Toyota site. I know nothing about the auto transmission but wanted to put it out here.
 

     
 

    I recently rebuilt my 22r engine and while reinstalling the engine and auto. trans discovered my detent\kick down cable was not functioning. Upon further investigation found the ball on the end of the cable inside the transmission had worn off. Then, I also discovered Toyota has discontinued the 84-88 detent cable. After retro fitting a number of different cables discovered that the 1990-92 Toyota Land Cruiser Cable to fit into my 85 pickup and worked great. The cable is a little longer but once it is fasten to the hold down fitting on the intake manifold it works just as good as original.
    
    The part number for this cable is Parts Geek----1990-1992 Toyota Land Cruiser Automatic Transmission Kickdown Cable - Pioneer Cables CA-2015......  https://www.partsgeek.com/ss/?i=1&ssq=Part+#:+CA-2015 or https://tinyurl.com/6mm32s7b
 
Don’t know if this will help. Seems these cables are hard to find.

Thank you!! I will try this 💗💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾😊🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Automatic transmission stopped shifting farther than 1st gear but does get into park, reverse, drive, just doesn't upshift]

Just now, Marinette said:

Hi! Thank you so much! I found it and does seem to be jammed. Oiled it and pulled back and forth to try to unjam it. Do you have any suggestions? Sometimes it shifts and sometimes it doesn't into 3rd or it takes waaaaaay to long to shift. 

Is it hard to find? Any pointers? I don't seem to be finding it in my auto parts stores. 

I appreciate your time so much, thank you for answering and sharing your knowledge. 💗

 

 

It is working better but not 100% all the time and it's scary to try to get on the freeway and not know whether it's gonna shift or not. 

[Automatic transmission stopped shifting farther than 1st gear but does get into park, reverse, drive, just doesn't upshift]

On 3/26/2022 at 8:34 AM, WME said:

Broken/jammed transmission shifter cable. It goes from the throttle body to the transmission. 

Hi! Thank you so much! I found it and does seem to be jammed. Oiled it and pulled back and forth to try to unjam it. Do you have any suggestions? Sometimes it shifts and sometimes it doesn't into 3rd or it takes waaaaaay to long to shift. 

Is it hard to find? Any pointers? I don't seem to be finding it in my auto parts stores. 

I appreciate your time so much, thank you for answering and sharing your knowledge. 💗

[Automatic transmission stopped shifting farther than 1st gear but does get into park, reverse, drive, just doesn't upshift]

My 86 sea breeze automatic stopped shifting gears while going uphill. 

Had correct amount of fresh at fluid and not sure what happened, cause it shifts from reverse, park and drive, but not between gears? 

Please help 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾