Check the gear selector lever at the transmission. I've seen a few that popped up due to the kickdown lever not being secured from the factory. The other item is the cable at the linkage under the column.
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: clhyer@cox.net [mailto:clhyer@cox.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 4:14 PM
To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
Subject: DML: Cannot get in gear
Once again I need to call on my friends in the DML community.
I have a friend with a 2002 Dakota, V6, Auto, Column shift. The truck starts fine, but sometimes we cannot get the truck out of park. We can repeatedly restart the truck and eventually it (whatever "it" is) will cycle to the spot where the truck will go into gear and act like nothing ever happened.
As I typed that, it sounds a lot like my wife... maybe the truck is female?
Anyhow, my '99 FSM indicates this is fixed by replacing the steering column. Is there something else we might look at first? If we need a steering column, any idea of years that will interchange?
TIA,
Cal
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