Thanks again Bob, but how did you get the meaning of those codes off Google ? I
just tried it and pretty much didn't get crap.

I got all kinds of things, but nothing that defined the codes.

Anyway, now I'm somewhat at a loss for specifics. How the heck would it know
about other shift solenoids, as well as the TCC one ? The codes, 1-2 shift, 3-2
shift and TCC, all at the same time ?

Now the question becomes how are they detecting these faults, are there
mechanical state switches in the tranny or is this all coming from an error
comparing the crank to the VSS, which incedentally I wonder exactly how they
deal with that, being a 4WD. I guess they would need a secondary VSS on the
transfer case output for the speedo, or does it just "know" ?

With these codes now, remembering the symptom:

Reset computer runs fine, afterwhile starts taking off in second and no passing
gear. When it gets hotter it will no longer shift into first even manually.

I wonder if the computer is reading the other two codes because of being in the
limp home mode. Even so, how could it differentiate between anything involved
at times when the TCC should be applied. When the TCC isn't applied how would
it know the stall rate of the torque convertor ? Is their math that good that
they can do it from the MAP or MAF along with the other engine values ? That's
almost scary (lol).

I say fairly assuredly that the TCC should not be applied in anything but high
gear, wouldn't you agree ? There is one possible fact not known yet,,,,,,,,, is
it POSSIBLE that the TCC is supposed to engage in every gear because they used
a bit of a different design of convertor, like one with nice high stall, but
need the TCC because it'll overheat ?????

This comes up because now I remember that the thing was picked up out of town
and during the trip it pushed out some fluid. It had to have been overfilled
because it wasn't real low when it got home. I wasn't on the trip, but I heard
there was quite a bit. Was it expansion, or maybe the torque convertor started
cavitating ?

A penny for your thoughts, hell I'll double it !

Thanks again

JURB