I recently bought a 2000 F-150 7700 4X4 with the 5.4 and I believe it is a 4R100 tranny. The transfercase shift lever doesn't seem to be acting properly. The pattern looks like this:

` ` |2H
` ` |
___|4H
| N
|
|4L

The problem exists in the 2H and 4H area. There is no "gate" to keep the lever from going to the far left when in 2H or 4H. My concern is that my wife (who is a small woman) might yank the lever while trying to get into 4H on the fly from the driver seat and hit either Neutral or 4L.

Does anyone else's T-case lever behave like this? The lever in my Bronco does go straight back but you have to push it down to get past 4H.

The stupid dealer where I bought it says this is the way Ford designed it. So now I'm just on a mission to make them look like idiots. It's a Jeep dealership, so it won't take much.

 

There is no problem with your shifter, the shifter should move relatively easy to snap back and forth between 2H and 4H. The only way you could accidently hit nuetral or 4L is if you intentionally pull the lever left and back out of 4H with effort. The shifter is detented to prevent this. If your shifter flops left and right in 4H then you have a problem.

 

I must not have explained myself very well. The lever can be moved left and right in both 2H and 4H. It is possible to go in a straight line from 2H to 4L. In effect what I have is this:

| `|2H
|` |
|__|4H
|N
|
|4L

Anywhere between 2H and 4H I can move the lever to the left.

 

thats weird.....my truck isn't like that......i'd say that if you can do that and she pulls hard enough she may go into 4L or N.....i'd say to show her how to do it and hopefully it's ok

 

Mine moves left and right in both 4H and 2H...BUT...it always falls back to the right when I let it go. To get to N...I have to pull it back to 4H, then left, then back just a touch. never had a prob with it. all works fine.

 

Mine will not move left or right while in 2H or 4H. Just forward (2H) and backward (4H)...then you must yank it over to the left and then down while in 4H to get to N. Then pull down and yank it to the right for 4L.

I would definately say that something is wrong with the T-case...

 

That sounds like what mine is doing. Maybe it's nothing.

Just seems odd to me. It would be equivalent to being able to shift from 3rd to 1st with a standard manual transmission. There should be a gate there to prevent that right to left movement.

Alright, I give. Maybe those Jeep jokers were right.

 

Yea it does seem a bit odd, but if you try it yourself, like trying to "act" out an accidental hit into N, then you will see it doesn't happen that easily. I do think though there is some sort of gate that doesn't let it go into N unless the truck is going pretty close to dead stop.