No Gear Selector Light on Dashboard when going into Drive

Hello, just bought a used 2011 Base 4x4 Tacoma truck from a dealer about 3 months ago. Recently when I go from Park to Drive the D doesn’t light up on dashboard unless I move selector to 2nd gear then back to Drive. P is lite before I start the process. Also the shifter seems tighter to move when this happens. I was wondering if someone knows what causes light to turn on in dashboard: would it be in the shifter console or at the neutral safety switch located on tranny, or something else? Truck drives fine even when D doesn’t light up. Any help would be appreciated.

 

The issue is more likely the neutral safety switch or the shift lock ECU.

 

I had similar issue a few weeks ago, however it brought up codes and went back to normal on its own. Codes cleared after code reader was removed. I got a lot of good information from several of the guys here and it was similar to what you were told. I crawled underneath to check it and take some pictures. It is in a little tight space under there so I will bring it in to dealership for this when oil change is due. If I touch it I will probably mess up something else,lol. Also be careful mine rolled backward and clicked when I thought it was in park, I did not yet engage e brake.

 

See my post from July 19, 2021.

 

That post leads to here.
Which also has the test procedure for the NSS
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/transmission-range-sensor.729217/#post-25975689

I’ll also point out, all the links to diag, all came from Jimmyh.
Thank him

 

Okay thanks Jimmyh. and all guys and gals for your helpful information and interesting subjects. Lots of good reading.

 

A lot of good information is on this site.
It’s just hard to find it, that’s where being around here for a while helps.
If you can remember seeing it, you can then jump over to Google and use their site search.
Then just search TW site only for certain keywords. I still can’t seem to get good results with the search bar here on TW.

 

Thanks everyone for the reply extremely helpful! Much appreciated.