I have 1, ever had that tranny replaced. I spent 3months looking for a solution to all the same problems. Driving fine one day then it sputtered and died, it fired back up but showed it was hot and it overheated quickly, got the van home and the diagnosis began. I even changed a body control module thinking it was the issue. Worst off this all happend again about a year later. But I had not thought about this part I'm gonna say in a sec. I can't stress enough how many times I ended up on a site with experts giving advice and not once did anyone mention this part. I have a Chilton's repair manual and it barely talks about this part. Only after going through all possible testable parts and the simple this part failing can cause this and thuid, but not that and that did I find out what stupid $38 part caused my van to sit in a garage twice totaling almost a year. There ended up only being 3 possibilities. 1 a bad ground, ok maybe. 2 the body control module located underneath the front bumper beauty cover(yes that's what its called) attached to the bumper with rivets, now this was the second round with this issue. The first was after I replaced my trans by myself and I forgot to lightly glue a small piece of card board nor bought a new CAMSHAFT SENSOR, so first time around I noticed I had the wrong bolt I put back in the sense to hold it in place. There is supposed to be a washer barely wider then the head of the nut, I had put one with a huge wide washer, it had made the camshaft sensor a little crooked, not much but 9months after tranny replacement the van died and refused to start and spark, killed 2 batteries trying, onceiyad backtracked tranny work I found it crooked, pulled it out and saw it had been grinding against the flywheel, and it had chipped at it till that spot was only plastic then it died, well several months later it died again, but I never once checked it till after I replaced the body module, the only other part in all the troubleshoots left was it. I pulled it out and it was even worse the the other I replaced. What I didn't notice till the second replacement was this sensor has some play. Over tighten just a tiny bit will force offset and there should be a little felt covered piece of hard cardboard glued to a sticker, this to keep a certain distance, between the sensor and flywheel, my first replacement didn't have it bit I figured 20yrs of automotive work, I'm good. I was wrong, the second went out in three months, too close and off center. I replaced the, $38 part from O'riley's, and haven't had a problem since. I've since bought 4 similar mini-vans for $400 & under replaced that part. Then sold them for thousands smogged & tagged. None have I spent more then $150 to start these non running vans. So I'd check that before anything if you've ever had the tranny replaced, cause 2 out of 3 times I put that sensor in it was offset and to close. Hope this helps anyone
Monday, September 30th, 2019 AT 1:17 PM