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Replaced Inverter Coolant Pump, now there are more issues with engine.

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion' started by Zaden, Jan 24, 2024.

  1. Zaden

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    I replaced the Inverter coolant pump for my 2005 Prius. But now when I start the car it sounds and feels fine at first, then the idle sometimes with rocket really high for a few seconds then come back down to normal. When driven it is normal for a few minutes or so, then it will rev high for a second then low and back and forth quickly, with no power going to the wheels even though the car is in drive.

    I ran a Mini - vic obd2 scanner with techstream on a laptop to the car. Got quite a few codes and some questions.

    C1241 - ABS/VSC/TRAC
    C1242 - ABS/VSC/TRAC
    C1300 - ABS/VSC/TRAC
    B1421 - Air Conditioner
    B2775 - Immobilizer
    B1242 - Smart Key
    B1271 - Gateway

    Also for the "Engine and ECT" system it said Inc under Monitor Status.

    I am pretty confused because I never had these problems before replacing the Inverter coolant pump, also worried that I somehow messed something up while working on the pump.
     
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    Probably not related to inverter coolant pump, but maybe you had a tool land awkwardly or got left behind on the driver side of the throttle body? The error code you'd get for the symptoms you described is the one for "throttle body position sensor." But you don't have that code... The fix is replacing the throttle body with one from the junk yard. But at this point you got a lot of error codes so don't be suprused once you get this issue fixed you're gonna have other stuff come up. Just be persistent. You'll get there, 19 year old cars ain't easy.
     
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    Don't worry about the B1421, anyway; it's explained toward the bottom of this page.
     
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    Is there any reason I wouldn't be getting this code, I did take off the box that goes on top of the throttle body so I could access and take off the coolant reservoir, as well as taking off all 4 coils. I may have hurt something while doing this but I was very slow and careful while taking these off and putting them back on. The valve in the throttle body in my car is quite dirty as well.
     
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    Why did you do this:

    I did take off the box that goes on top of the throttle body so I could access and take off the coolant reservoir, as well as taking off all 4 coils.

    to install a new inverter cooling water pump? That pump is behind the driverside headlight....why did you need to remove the inverter coolant reservoir? If you actually did all this, then it's likely your ICW system is air bound.
     
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    Thanks for getting back to, I'm 17 and trying to figure out what's wrong with my car. I swapped out the pump because there was a leak and it didn't seem to be working. The symptoms the car has were there before I swapped the pump, so it's probably not related to my work on the inverter coolant pump.

    Do you guys have any other ideas for me?
     
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    I'm still trying to understand exactly what work you did. You say you replaced the inverter cooling water pump. This electric motor/pump is located directly behind the driverside headlight. Is this the pump you actually replaced? I'm curious, because you talk about removing the airbox from the top of the throttle body to access/remove the coolant reservoir. The reservoir between the airbox and front of the car is for engine coolant, the reservoir on the driverside of the airbox area is inverter coolant.

    In post 1 you say the symptoms started after the ICWP replacement. Post #6 you say the symptoms were there before the pump replacement. I'm confused. Can you start over with what you had going on?

    If your car was working properly but just had a leak from the ICW system, and you installed a new pump, then had these problems, you need to go back and look at and verify everything you touched. Your 'revving' almost sounds like a vacuum leak or something going on with throttle body/air supply. Did you unplug the throttle body and not plug it back in? did you clean the TB and MAF? Did you disconnect 12v power ?
     
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    I'd suggest you find someone that can help you. Getting in over your head is easy. And if you keep trying with the car exhibiting conditions like the one you are trying to describe, it's likely the confusion will get worse.
     
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    Two months ago while I was driving it suddenly shifted into neutral and the engine turned off while I was driving, all the dash lights turned on, including the triangle of death. After parking the car I couldn't start it or get it into ready. Towed it to a Toyota dealership and they said a new 12v would be first to be replaced, after the replaced it they said to bring it back if any more problems showed up.

    Drove it for a week and everything was just fine. Check engine light came on and for some reason I decided to continue driving it for about a week, then it broke down again. Doing the same thing when it broke down the first time, shifted into neutral while I was driving and shut down the engine, as well as all the dash lights turning on.

    After parking it and unplugging the 12v overnight. I plugged it back in and it was able to start, and drove it back home. Checked the inverter coolant and it was low, also saw some coolant dripping from bottom of the car.

    Replaced the inverter coolant pump and fluid, bled the system. But the bleed valve was clogged when I went to use it, so I cleaned it before bleeding. Checked other hoses for junk in them but everything seemed fine. Got the car into ready mode and started it to make sure the new pump and system worked, everything was working and sounded good. Drove it around the neighborhood for an hour and then all the dash lights turned on. It started having huge lag when I pressed on the gas pedal and it would rev high for just a second then back down, when it did rev there was also huge lag before the power went to the wheels.

    Turned everything off and got my moms old aftermarket OB2 reader she bought years ago. Reader didn't work at first and we needed some software, got it all working and downloaded TechStream and got it working with our reader. Used the reader to get me some codes and I got, C1241, C1242, C1300, B1421, B2775, B1242, B1271.

    That was the last thing I've done with the car. Just trying to figure out what is wrong with my car.

    Also has 160,000 miles on it.

    Thanks for the help.
     
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    Water under the bridge kinda thing, but you should have started getting codes way before the first time you hooked the car up after driving it for however long with issues.
    Unless you can get history data in techstream to reduce the code count your currently looking at, it's probably going to take a skilled certified Prius tech, and even a cert hybrid tech might have trouble untangling that at this point.
    The cars behavior of shifting to neutral and shutting down, isn't something that's I read about. so you might want to google that and see if there is any info still floating around the net about those symptoms for your model year or Gen.
     
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    One thing I would do is to make sure I'm confident the codes my reader is showing is actually the codes the car has stored. We've had instances of some readers not showing the full story. I wonder if it's missing some hybrid system codes. I'm curious what reader you have that you were able to download techstream to it. Mine is on a laptop.

    Have you researched the C1300 code? A quick look from the PriusChat search engine seems to show it frequently requires the skid control ecu to be replaced due to internal failure.
     
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