automatic shift shaft
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automatic shift shaft
Heh all, just tought I'd let you know about the fun I had this weekend. Went to haul my 48 on a trailer to a old truck photo shoot, got the 93 about backed up under the ball of the trailer hitch, went to shift into reverse for about a 2 inch adjustment, and oops the columb shift lever went dead- stuck on a Saturday without a dealership open, one truck not quite ready to run yet, and the other stuck in park dead.
The aluminum shaft that spins in a couple of nylon bushings, mounted on the top of the control columb busted right in two, broke at the slot cut in the tube for the ignition lock.
FWIW the new tube I got at the dealership today is beefed up in the area that cracked, and the new one only cost me 68 bucks CND, with new bushings. I'm really glad this happened at home and not out on the road somewhere, or it could have cost me a lot of headaches and likely a lot of bucks to get towed, repaired etc etc.
My old tube was on a 93, so likely any of us IDIers with the automatics are subject to having this problem, just a heads up.
The aluminum shaft that spins in a couple of nylon bushings, mounted on the top of the control columb busted right in two, broke at the slot cut in the tube for the ignition lock.
FWIW the new tube I got at the dealership today is beefed up in the area that cracked, and the new one only cost me 68 bucks CND, with new bushings. I'm really glad this happened at home and not out on the road somewhere, or it could have cost me a lot of headaches and likely a lot of bucks to get towed, repaired etc etc.
My old tube was on a 93, so likely any of us IDIers with the automatics are subject to having this problem, just a heads up.
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The aluminum shift tube is a '92-'96 thing, the '91-older trucks have steel shift tubes and do not usually suffer from the failure you experienced. Fullsize passenger cars of those model years also have that style of shift tube, and not surprisingly have the very same issue...
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From: Mi'kma'ki
oh man,that sounds like a fun time.
hey you dont happen to have a video of your truck running do you? do those headers give it a distinct exhaust tone?
did you feel them wake the engine up once installed?
sorry for getting off topic.....a little bit anyway lol.
hey you dont happen to have a video of your truck running do you? do those headers give it a distinct exhaust tone?
did you feel them wake the engine up once installed?
sorry for getting off topic.....a little bit anyway lol.
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