No Power/Acceleration

[izi6969]

My wife's 2004 Pilot EX during recent road trips on the way home looses all power. Engine does not shutdown or idle rough. This normally happens at around 70 mph. I have to kick off the cruise enable to make it home. Yesterday my wife on a 150 mile return trip called me and said the Pilot had no power. The check engine light has not illuminated or any other malfunction lights. The operating temperature was normal. Now it is running perfectly. This is the third time this happens. Any ideas?

[tim.s]

Is it loosing power like you took your foot off the gas and the engine is slowing down or is the engine staying rev'd and the speed drops off anyway?

Did you ever get your "no overdrive" problem looked at or taken care of?

[izi6969]

This problem is related to the same no overdrive condition. When traveling with the cruise set at about 70 mph in "D", since I don't tow, the rpm increases to about 4000 rpm to maintain speed and this where normally we loose power (sluggish, hesitates). I have removed one spark plug and it looks very good for 54,000 miles on the vehicle. Well I just dropped it off at the dealership this morning. I'll let you know what they find. Thanks for all the advice.

[izi6969]

The Pilot was taken to the dealer service center and the technician drove it for 60 miles. Unfortunately nothing happened. They ran some diagnostics and nothing came up. I was not charged for the time, but I am worried on our next trip it will act up again and leave us stranded during the cold winter.

[andyschneider]

Originally posted by izi6969
The Pilot was taken to the dealer service center and the technician drove it for 60 miles. Unfortunately nothing happened. They ran some diagnostics and nothing came up. I was not charged for the time, but I am worried on our next trip it will act up again and leave us stranded during the cold winter.

This sounds like either transmission or torque converter-related. Almost sounds like a loss of fluid in the converter after an extended drive or something like that. Have you done a tranny fluid fill and drain recently? And is the fluid at the proper level? It doesn't sound like a motor problem...

andy

[Gav]

wasn't the tranny recalled on certain years? That does sound like a tranny problem to me too. Revs going up but you're not going anywhere. = Motor fine, tranny not hooking up.

[75blazer]

Originally posted by Gav
wasn't the tranny recalled on certain years? That does sound like a tranny problem to me too. Revs going up but you're not going anywhere. = Motor fine, tranny not hooking up.

There was a recall, but this sounds EXACTLY like a problem I had with a Civic we had.

The symptoms described are similar to what I experienced. I was sure the tranny was about to go. I was certain I felt slippage and couldn't get OD to engage. I gave it to my friend that works only on Honda/Acura and after about a 2 minute drive he said it was the distributor. I was very confused because the car started fine, ran fine and even revved to red line with no hesitation, but as soon as you started to drive, it was sluggish.

A new distributor, cap, rotor, plugs and wires later the car drove like new.

Have it looked at before letting someone sell you on expensive trans work.

[rocky]

While the tranny must be a suspect, I would want to pull all the plugs to see if they are all similar in condition. I'm suspecting that you may have a coil that is dying perhaps due to loss of coolant. As a result it overheats on long runs and you start to loose power-the downside of this theory is that you are not getting error codes. If some plugs look fouled thats your hint as to where to look.

I would do some basic diagnostics. Check fuel pump pressure, breather for fuel tank, replace the fuel filter, check battery and alternator voltage. Also run some fuel injector cleaner through the system

Its tricky without codes!

[Scancord]

I had an 04 Pilot, now have an 08--the 08 is much faster, it has the drive by wire which shifts much faster

Its just a better SUV

Its amazng how different they are