Help! The weirdest thing started happening today...

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by freewave

Exactly. I can feather the gas to get past neutral without stalling. That works in both directions (reverse to drive, and drive to reverse) however its awkward to do when going from drive to reverse. I am currently just letting it stall when I park.

OK. For that behavior the service manual points to the ECM, shift lock ECU (lives inside of the shifter) or the Park/Neutral switch (the switch that the shifter cable moves on the tranny) being the culprit. Diagnosis would best be done with the Toyota TechStream tool, as the data that it shows would allow one to narrow the problem down to one of those three devices.