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My 88 f150 has a AOD trans gear indicator. It doesn’t show what gear it is in I broke the cable messing with it. I don’t even see the indicator, so does that mean it’s missing? Unless the indicator is a little circle thing because there’s D with overdrive and a D without overdrive on mine, and the one without overdrive has a circle around it.
Is that the indicator or just showing that drive is different from the other? How would I go about fixing this? Would i get a new cable? Or just replace the whole thing?
That is a spring loaded indicator. A cable goes from the indicator to a small peg on your shifter, under the steering wheel column plastic cover. The shifter pulls cable which moves the indicator towards the "park position" to the proper gear you've selected. The spring pulls the indicator back when you move it towards 1st gear.
I would pull the plastic cover off your column and see if your cable slipped off or broke.
The cables broken, I broke it trying to fix it since it was old and brittle, when I redid the column. I just didn’t know if the cable was the cause since it had never been functional. The last guy who owned it just had it hanging around not attached to the column I’m thinking about going to a junkyard to get some other stuff so I was gonna get the correct tilt column instead of a no tilt, so I was trying to figure out, what’s broken. Wouldn’t I still see the indicator stuck on a certain gear even if the cables broken? If not how do I move the indicator by hand to see if it’s functional? I left the broken half of the cable on the indicator and threw away the column side.
The orange indication probably sucked itself past the 1st gear mark and is now hiding behind the black bezel.
But it doesn't matter. When you go to the junk yard, grab a complete gear indicator assembly with the cables and everything. It comes out as a unit, easily.
You have to be real careful with those delicate little bisterds
I have broken several over the years and they only came as an assembly for a hundred bucks
Long obsolete
You can repair the cables though, using model aircraft control wire crimps and such
Good luck at the wrecking yard
Yea, I heard they are brittle. I actually got lucky and found a cable, I haven’t seen the end that goes to the indicator but the column side looks correct. It took a bit to find it. https://a.co/d/bisfzA7
thanks
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