stuck in stupid
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02-20-2019
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Hello everyone new hear and in despair just replaced clutch and slave no problems installing the shifter thought I over tightened it because it spun on the little shaft went in to gear no problem so went pick n pull right down the street they had a ranger the pulled the arm that sits in the transmission the shifter attaches to pit it in my truck tried to shift locked up pulled it back out thats when I saw the parts are just alike except on the bottom of said arm theres a paddle shape on original part it faces one way on the pick n pull part it faces the other way so I reinstalled the original part and it still locked up cant get it to go in any gear any help would be appreciated sorry for the long winded explanation
#2
02-20-2019
Welcome to the forum
Always helpful to include the year of Ranger in your posts.
You most likely removed the shifter when transmission wasn't in NEUTRAL
You need to pull out the shifter again and then look down inside trans
You will see 3 shift rails and each has a Slot
These 3 slots need to be lined up in the Center of the hole and thats NEUTRAL
BLOCK THE WHEELS
Then use a screw driver to move the one slot that is not in the center, back to the center
If there is weight on the rear wheels, holding vehicle from rolling, you may have to rock the vehicle to release it from the Gear it is in now to get it to Center position
Then reinstall shifter
What you have done is VERY VERY Common, lol, been there done that myself
You probably have an M5OD-R1 transmission, 1988 to 2011 Rangers used these, there were TWO different shift arms used, so you may have gotten the older or newer version, but not the same version as yours
Always helpful to include the year of Ranger in your posts.
You most likely removed the shifter when transmission wasn't in NEUTRAL
You need to pull out the shifter again and then look down inside trans
You will see 3 shift rails and each has a Slot
These 3 slots need to be lined up in the Center of the hole and thats NEUTRAL
BLOCK THE WHEELS
Then use a screw driver to move the one slot that is not in the center, back to the center
If there is weight on the rear wheels, holding vehicle from rolling, you may have to rock the vehicle to release it from the Gear it is in now to get it to Center position
Then reinstall shifter
What you have done is VERY VERY Common, lol, been there done that myself
You probably have an M5OD-R1 transmission, 1988 to 2011 Rangers used these, there were TWO different shift arms used, so you may have gotten the older or newer version, but not the same version as yours
Last edited by RonD; 02-20-2019 at 01:19 PM.
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02-21-2019
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