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I'm going to show you how to fix a shifter that [doesn't] really shift into correct gear like right now. It's saying it's in reverse
and
Really? It's [in] neutral and this just feels really sloppy. There's a lot of play a
whole lot [of] play
And then sometimes when you put it in Park
It's really not in park you go to try to start the car again
And it won't even start that's because it's not in park, and you can see even just in park
There's a lot of play in this this is typical on Ford vehicles right now
I'm in a (1995) Ford Windstar, and I'll show you why it's doing this it's an easy free fix
So we're going to look under the steering wheel we don't have to take anything apart
Just find your brake pedal and go under here now. Here is your brake pedal you're going to follow the brake pedal up
Until you get to the steering column you can see if I move the steering wheel this moves
So then we want to look behind this
And kind of up [to] the side
And you can see right [here] these two bolts that have the torques ends on them. I'm going to touch the gear lever
and you [can] see that's what moves so that you're at the right location and what happens is these two bolts back out and
Loosen up, so if I put my hand back here, and I kind of just wiggle this around a little bit
You can see how they're both loose
And it allows a lot [of] slop in here a lot of play and that play gets transferred into this
which then goes to your
transmission and shifts the gears so easy fix [all] we have to do is tighten these up I'm actually going to take them out and
Put the Red locker on them
We'll do one at a time and the thread locker will ensure [that] they don't get loose again
So we're going to look at the engine here
And just look at the shifter to make sure it's not loose on this end as well
You can see the transmission right there, and there's where the shifter is
And that looks really smooth and solid there's not much play. We're also going to come around from this side and check this side
And again, there's not much play, so that's good. [you] always want to check [that] just in case
It's all you need is some threadlocker and a size 30 torques on this
So we're going to take off one at a time
Then all we do is just add a little bit of this
Removable [loctite] and this will just prevent vibrations from loosening up the bolt. We only do one at a time
So that this is really [easy] to align
Make sure it's nice and snug
You don't have to go crazy tightening this but you definitely want to snug it up good, and then we'll take this other one off
I will do the same thing for this one. Just a little bit of threadlocker right on the end here
Go back in here and hand tighten it
And then finish tightening it with [this] size 30 torques
Okay, now let's give it a shot and see how it feels
okay, [ah]
Yeah
That feels real [good] now, I could actually feel the gear
nice and smooth
There's not much play at all
And it clicks right into the gear compared to before where it I?
Had no clue what gear I was in and it was just a mess and you can see there's not much movement in here
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