C6 question
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Laughing Gas
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C6 question
Ok, I have a pretty dumb question.....it's my first A/T ford. Where is park at, if your looking at the trans (bellhousing is left and tailshaft is right). My shift arm is pointing straight up, so is it park to the right?.
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It depends on if it's floor shift or column shift, but park will be at one end or the other. If it is in park, the output shaft will be locked up. Any other gear and you will be able to turn it.
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I am not a transmission expert by any stretch,so if I am wrong sombody please corect me. Ok on my c4 my lever is pointing DOWN not up so the actions are probably reversed since your shift lever is pointing up. According to the instructions for the B&M Mega Shifter with the lever pointing down 1st gear is all the way to the rear or right as you face it, and park is all the way to the front or left as you face it. The instructions are the same for th c4, c5, and c6. So i would think that with your shift lever pointing up ,we could say that rotating the shift SHAFT fully clockwise would put you in park and rotating it fully counter clockwise would put you in 1st gear.
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Transmission shift levers point up or down depending on if it's designed for a floor shift or column shift application. To swap it, you have to take it apart internally. But which is which is one of those things I've forgotten over the years. (yeah, it sucks to get old) But if down and forward is park, then so is up and back.
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Laughing Gas
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I thought I checked to see if the output shaft was locked. I had a trans rebuilt as I was driving mine, found a shift arm like mine and had them put it in (you have to remove the valve body to switch arms). I modified the shift linkage but it looks like I wasn't in park, I fired it up today for the first time (rebuilt motor too) and as I put trans fluid in it wanted to lurch forward.....but I had the parking brake on and wheel chocks 
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Here's what I have, I think I need to go back more:
.Here's what I have, I think I need to go back more:
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I beleive in the picture you are showing , forward would be 1st or lo, and back would be park. Remove the cotter pin to disconect the shifter linkage, and try shifting it by hand. Its poss, that the linkage is slightly out of adjustment, making it surge when you added atf because it was not fully in park. So shift it by hand and see wich way the wheels turn( if its on the ground.)
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The bracket piece looks different than mine, and I don't see a nuetral safety switch on it, but I agree with Jim. See how much farther back it goes with the linkage rod off.
EDIT: If I remember right, the nuetral safety switch was located in a different spot prior to the years' C6's I'm looking at, at home.
EDIT: If I remember right, the nuetral safety switch was located in a different spot prior to the years' C6's I'm looking at, at home.
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Well...if it's a C6, you could disconnect the shifter...then move the lever all the way counterclockwise. You'll feel the detents for each of the gears. The best clue will be to rotate the driveshaft...if the shifter is in the park position, you'll hear the click of the park pin engaging and the driveshaft will stop turning. If it is actually in low gear (opposite end of the gear spectrum from park), the driveshaft will continue to turn freely. If that happens, move the shifter all the way clockwise and try to turn the driveshaft again. If you have it in the park position, you won't be able to turn it very far at all before the park pin locks it up.
I'm not at home to look at mine, but I think Jim is correct...counterclockwise will move you into park.
I'm not at home to look at mine, but I think Jim is correct...counterclockwise will move you into park.
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Well...if it's a C6, you could disconnect the shifter...then move the lever all the way counterclockwise. You'll feel the detents for each of the gears. The best clue will be to rotate the driveshaft...if the shifter is in the park position, you'll hear the click of the park pin engaging and the driveshaft will stop turning. If it is actually in low gear (opposite end of the gear spectrum from park), the driveshaft will continue to turn freely. If that happens, move the shifter all the way clockwise and try to turn the driveshaft again. If you have it in the park position, you won't be able to turn it very far at all before the park pin locks it up.
I'm not at home to look at mine, but I think Jim is correct...counterclockwise will move you into park.
I'm not at home to look at mine, but I think Jim is correct...counterclockwise will move you into park.
clockwise is the correct direction.
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Column shift, lever is down....floor shift lever is up.
With lever up, and pointed tward the tailshaft is park. Lever down, the arm will be pointed twards the converter/bellhousing.
This holds true for all ford Automatic transmissions that Ihave ever seen/dealt with.
With lever up, and pointed tward the tailshaft is park. Lever down, the arm will be pointed twards the converter/bellhousing.
This holds true for all ford Automatic transmissions that Ihave ever seen/dealt with.
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Laughing Gas
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Yea, I don't what I was thinking when I bent up the shift rod. I was in low gear, park is about 3 o'clock and the shifter arm is higher then the trans so the leverage isn't there. I'm going to make a bracket for the arm so I can get some leverage out of park, I already tried to bend the linkage in a upswing motion but it's still too tough to get it out of park.