TRANSMISSION RANGE SENSOR
DESCRIPTION
The Transmission Range Sensor (TRS) (2) is mounted
to the top of the valve body inside the transmission
and can only be serviced by removing the valve body
assembly. The electrical connector extends through
the transmission case.
The Transmission Range Sensor (TRS) has four
switch contacts that monitor shift lever position and
send the information to the PCM.
OPERATION
The Transmission Range Sensor (TRS) communicates shift lever position (SLP) to the TCM as a combination of
open and closed switches. Each shift lever position has an assigned combination of switch states (open/closed) that
the TCM receives from four sense circuits. The TCM interprets this information and determines the appropriate
transmission gear position and shift schedule.
Since there are four switches, there are 16 possible combinations of open and closed switches (codes). Seven of
these codes are related to gear position and three are recognized as “between gear” codes. This results in six
codes which should never occur. These are called “invalid” codes. An invalid code will result in a DTC, and the TCM
will then determine the shift lever position based on pressure switch data. This allows reasonably normal transmis-
sion operation with a TRS failure.
TRS SWITCH STATES
SLP
T42
T41
T3
T1
P
CL
CL
CL
OP
R
CL
OP
OP
OP
N
CL
CL
OP
CL
D
OP
OP
OP
CL
2
OP
OP
CL
OP
1
CL
OP
CL
CL
21 - 400
AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - 42RLE
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