Chris
I kind of believe that anyone that uses their Dak off road for any
length of time will get that little mechanism dusty/gritty under the
inst cluster. When that happens the little spring that moves the
indicator just isn't strong enough to overcome the extra friction of the
dust. There is an adjustment for that tho.
If you take the bottom cover off of the steering column then you will
find a sm cable with a ferrule hooked into the collar that moves with
the shift lever. Apply park brake and move shifter to -L-. Pull the
cable with ferrule out of the little hook on the collar and let it snap
back to right. It may take several snaps to get it far enough right to
indicate properly. Rehook cable to collar and run gearshift back to
-P-. That is probably as good as it gets.
Good luck, Chris
Garth Hoard
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 22:07:44 -0400
From: Chris lang <langcj@polaris.clarkson.edu>
Subject: DML: Re: PROBLEM; Tranny
I have the same truck '93 LE/ Ext.Cab 4x4/ 318 auto mine does the same
thing, kinda clunks into gear. When i got it in febuary it had 47,000
miles
on it and didnt do it. now i've go 53,000 on it and it does it all the
time. I think the reason mine does it is because the linkage is not set
right. I had an extension welded into mine for the 3" body lift i put
in
and ever since that its clunked into gear. I payed with it the other
day
and it got a little better but its still not that much better. I'm
going to
play with mine again this weekend sometime. Does the indicator line up
with
right with PRND21 on yours? It dosen't exactly on mine.
Chris
- -----Original Message-----
From: GARTH HOARD <jghoard@hotmail.com>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Thursday, July 23, 1998 9:43 PM
Subject: DML: PROBLEM; Tranny
>Hi all.
>
>I found this site the other day and enjoyed reading the archives but
>found no mention of the problem I'm having with my truck.
>
> '93 LE/ Ext.Cab 4x4/ 318 auto. (use in oil patch but pull stumps on
>weekends for fun. :) )
>
>The PROBLEM: With the trans. in park, with any tension on it at
>all(e.g. if truck just rolls up against the lock pawl),
> When you shift into any gear, mostly the gear going in
>the direction it rolled, the lock pawl will not release
>until you take the shift lever across neutral to the
>opposite gear. Will usually clang as pawl releases
>under tension from being in gear and park @ the same
>time.
>
>The FIXES: 1. Changed annulus gear. got better for 2 wks then
>gradually back to same.
>
> 2. Did this again with same results
>.
> 3. Did this again along with pawl, spring, and complete
>rebuild of tranny except for valve body. (This was
>very nice of them at my local dealership as the
>vehicle was, by then, out of warranty.) seemed to fix
>this problem but over the course of a month, it came
>back again.
>
> 4. The last and only fix that has worked for any length
>of time is to religiously use the park brake (so that
>the truck does not move at all. Makes me wonder why
>they even put -P- on the shift indicator in this
>truck.
>
>Now, I like my truck. not a rattle in it at 107k+, great A/C, nice
radio
>(diff spkrs), runs great but if anyone here has an idea of what would
>fix this, except changing trans or cases, drop me a line. I've been
>using brake now for probably 50k miles now.
>
>thanks in advance for help or comments.
>
> Garth Hoard
>
>
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