Spdrcer34
Explorer Addict
- Joined
- March 14, 2002
- Messages
- 3,873
- Reaction score
- 12
- City, State
- Bremerton, WA
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1992 Explorer XL
I was at the Ford Dealer today picking up some Toreador Red Touch Up Paint for my latest project, a 1998 Mountaineer 5.0L/AWD.
I got back into my Explorer and started the engine. It died almost immediately, which is weird, because that has NEVER happened. I went to re-start the engine, and I got NOTHING. Literally...NOTHING. I went to climb out of the X, and noticed the vehicle started rolling more than the 1" that it normally travels before the Park Pawl catches.
I set the parking brake, got out and looked under the hood for anything that was obviously wrong/out of place....I found nothing.
I get back in the X, put it in Neutral, and it started right up. Put it BACK into park, and the X started to back up.
So it seems I have lost Park somehow. I now have a CEL, I scanned it, and it is a DTRS code, out of range....something.
OD is where is should be, as is Neutral. There is also a 'dead spot', as in no real 'detent' like there used to be when going from Reverse to Park.
Where do I go from here?
Ryan
I got back into my Explorer and started the engine. It died almost immediately, which is weird, because that has NEVER happened. I went to re-start the engine, and I got NOTHING. Literally...NOTHING. I went to climb out of the X, and noticed the vehicle started rolling more than the 1" that it normally travels before the Park Pawl catches.
I set the parking brake, got out and looked under the hood for anything that was obviously wrong/out of place....I found nothing.
I get back in the X, put it in Neutral, and it started right up. Put it BACK into park, and the X started to back up.
So it seems I have lost Park somehow. I now have a CEL, I scanned it, and it is a DTRS code, out of range....something.
OD is where is should be, as is Neutral. There is also a 'dead spot', as in no real 'detent' like there used to be when going from Reverse to Park.
Where do I go from here?
Ryan