Hello, fairly new here on the forums & could use a little input on a problem that has recently come up on my 1995 XE auto 4x4. The problem that has just started is when i went to leave the house last week. I got in started it up ran fine when i put in reverse to pull out of driveway truck shut off. Tried this a couple of times each time started up and ran in park & neutral fine but when put in reverse or drive in would stall out and shut off.
Got under pathfinder and looked around and noticed the ground wire to starter was not connected. Not sure how that would be what was causing my problem though? However once i connected the wire back on the starter it started up ran in park good. Put it in reverse which stayed running backed out of driveway put it in drive. Then when beginning to accelerate it felt like it would gain and lose power. So i went to slow down to check things out i pushed on brakes and it seemed like it was trying to give it a little gas still. I ran test mode 3 from the box under passanger seat and got code 51. After driving for a little while these went away & ended up with yet another problem.
The new problem was my reverse going out it would only go in if i reved up with a little gas. Then it would slowly begin to work and go. Had reverse work fine a couple more times then had to rev up for it to work. However now i have no reverse at all. Transmission fluid has excellent color and smell to it, tranfer case level good and looks great. I was thinking possibly one of the solinoids might have maybe gone out on me. That is until yesterday after driving it on the highway for an hour abd almost to my destination i heard a noise that sounded like some sort of gear noise when at speeds of about 30mph would let off gas and goes away. Pushed on gas again no issue for 10 min or so then same thing gear noise at 30mph. After not driving for a couple hours. Left from friends house and drove for about 20-30 minutes and then all of a sudden gear noise started again. This time it did it both at 30mph & 41mph.
No problems with it today except the no reverse and the injector 51 code in in test mode 3. That is until 2 hours ago when i was making a lefthand turn at stop light and then the gear noise happened again.
So any help would be awesome, couple other things with all my issues on these problems that i noticed while trying to find solution. One, is that yesterday when driving and heard noise it also sounded like was stuck in 4wd so stopped put in neutral drove forward a bit, stopped back in neutral shiffted out of 4wd put in reverse and had friend help push truck backward since can't drive in reverse so thought maybe for some reason it was stuck in 4wd causing the gear noise. When we pushed backward sounded like you could hear a gear change there switching out of 4wd. Seemed to fix issue. Until today when making that lefthand turn when gear noise came back. Also feels hot around @!*%ers on floor and by ebrake.
Has anyone else experienced any of this before and does any of this sound like could be possible solonoid problem? Also what could be causing this gear noise since it seems to be different problem then the reverse not working and the code 51? My apologies on my post being so long but wanted to be sure to cover everything i could on this from when it first started until earlier today since i don't think i have been able to find any sort of solution so far.
Thank you,