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GraphiteDak
GenIII
 
4/04/2005
18:40:28
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 Subject: 2003 shift cable/linkage
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Yesterday I noticed my truck would not start after I fueled up at the gas station. I messed around and it started, thinking nothing of it at the time except for a fluke.
But when I backed into my driveway last night my truck rolled after I had put it in park and as I started to get out of the truck!
Well. I dicked around with the shifter and noticed it felt sloppy. I moved it down to drive and back into park a few times and it finally went in park.
I glanced under the truck and noticed we have a shifter cable, not linkage like the older trucks.
It was too late to mess with it last night and I'm sure it will be something I'll find and fix (plus it's under warrnaty).
If it's not too hard to fix I wont bother to take it into the dealer. As I don't always trust the dealer monkeys around here.
It looked like it was ok down below. I didn't bother to look where it attached inside or if under the hood.
Has anyone else had this problem?
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GraphiteDak
GenIII
4/04/2005
22:17:25
| RE: 2003 shift cable/linkage
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OK. When I posted this earlier I was in between jobs using my computer I have in my work vehicle to post.
I come home and none of you slackers had a reply :P
Anyway. I got out and had to use my 10 yr old daughter to man the shifter while I watched down below. No slop there, and I could see the cable was barely moving for how much she was moving the shifter.
So then I threw her out of the cab (j/k) and looked under the dash. I saw where the cable has an adjuster almost identicle to the old transmission throttle cable adjusters. The little locker thing came undone on it's own allowing the cable to move within the adjuster bracket making it really sloppy WTF???
Anyway all I had to do was align it up and push the little white locker into the grooves on the outer cable and it's back to normal.
Weird that it did that. And it's in a place I haven't been messing around either.
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