ok leaving my grls house this evening i shifted my truck into reverse, i was like wow i got a little play in my SHIFTER, so i go to put it in drive and i had to rock it into that gear i was like WTF, so i shift down to 1st, again i had to rock it back and forth to get it there. goin down the road i put it back in drive, TRANNY SHIFTS FINE... even the fluid is brand new... so i go to the gas station to get some chew and put it in park, thing is it said it was in park, then it slid in between P and R so i stepped out of the truck and acted like it was in N. i push it forward against the hill back to my parking spot (might i add it was still between P and R, so i figured its not getting into park, so i had to put it in N to start it, and drove to the rodeo grounds where i took the colum apart, nothing seemed out of the ordinary for what i could see and sprayed some brake clean into it hopeing to free it up or something. no difference, so i try many gears, got into all of them rocking the shifter back and forth except P and 1st, so i put it in park (between p and r) and get out, push the truck forward 10ft and then back wards, so i check the linkage to the tranny, the little shift thingy on it, and put it into park again afyer gion through the gears, and it was still between p and r so i get under the truck and push the shifter the rest of the way, and when i got into the truck i noticed a brass colored torx bolt on the floorboard, and it didnt hit me til i opend the colum that maybe this bolt fell out, but from where??? can i do this myself knowing its something to do with the shifter, joint, cable area??? dash be removed???? someone help me out amd i hope this was descriptive enough

 

i hope u have luck fixin it bud and it aint expensive im leavin to daytona now sorry that u cant go.

 

Damnit!!!!!!

Now I will still have these 33s!!!

Hope you fix the truck.

 

dang that sucks, hope its an easy fix for you

 

does anyone know how this can be fixed?? anyoneh have this problem?

 

I don't know much about automatic transmissions, but how did you "rock" it into gear? I do know when you put it in park and the little line thingy ain't on the P, you can adjust the line thingy with a a little screw type thing on the gauge cluster. do you think that's off and possibly causing the problem?

 

Sounds like your shifter cable is loose...there should be adjustment down by the transmission on the left side...you'll see the cable, there should be a nut with adjustment

 

jr i am guna try that now

 

I kno my shifter is always one off but it goes in and out of gear fine.
when im in park im always in between p and r and drive is pointing at the 2

 

Mine is a little loose, but not like yours. I'm just saying to try that because when I had my trans rebuilt he said my shifter cable was rediculously loose and that he was surpirsed it was staying in gear...I don't know I never had any problems.

 

if it's not the shifter cable, then your linkage is out of alignment. my bronk's indicator was broken, i just counted the clunks.

 

mine does the same damn thing and i cant figure it out. whenever you post it up all people want to tell you is "good luck".....ill be watching this thread closely in hopes of finding an answer. and if i find one first ill be sure to let you know

 

Linkage could be loose/broken as well, very good point!

 

well did the deed today, tore into the dashboard, which was a b!tch, and found out that the bolt that fell out was indeed something that held the shifter to the cable linkage, fixed now, but took all damn day

 

glad to see you got it fixed. its amazing how 1 lil part can cause such a big problem

 

Sweet, so where exactly did it fall out of?

 

have any pics? im off tomorrow and prolly gonna tear into mine again and see if i can fix mine...

 

no i was gunna take some, but a storm set in and my phone dont have a flash, but man its so nice not to be stuck between p and r, i dont know, maybe to much baja muddin lmao