I drove the previa around in drive and after the transmission warmed up the reverse started to work again.
Sometimes the gears will not work if the fluid is too thick. The lucas stop slips autotrans fluid is thick and that might have locked up the gears until I was able to get it driving in forward for awhile and the transmission warmed up.


Quote Originally Posted by dirk005 View Post
I need help with my previa 95 transmission. It stop working and would not drive. After I saw the fluid was gone after I had checked 4 weeks ago and it was fine. I added fluid and when I sput the gear in drive it went forward also I put gear in reverse and it went in reverse. The next day it doesn't want to reverse anymore. I put some lucas transmission repair in there and that is what got it driving as well as some dexron 6 and also maxlife transfluid. So I don't know why it doesn't want to drive in reverse. I haven't moved it since I saw the reverse doesn't work. I put it in reverse and the gear doesn't catch for it to move. I disconnected the negative on the battery to reset the computer to see if that helps by reseting some codes. Also I checked the trans fluid after putting some new fluid in there and the color is dark reddish brown which means the fluid is bad. Can anyone help cause I don't think I should have to buy a whole new transmission for this because it cannot work in reverse.