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Yeah, not kidding! Glad you got it handled.
Showcases a good reason to run an inspection now and then on all of our underpinnings. Not every time you get in of course, like you would if you were a pilot getting into a plane, but the concept is the same.
I just learned about loose screws a little while ago too. The '93 F150 I'm "borrowing" from a neighbor has always had sloppy shifting and finally just would not go into Park at all. Then it would not start even if I held it in Park, only Neutral.
Then finally, as it got harder and harder to remove the key, it just got time to do something before anything really dire happened. But now I can see why some old Fords had that "falling out of Park" issue and driving over their owners!
Turns out the two screws holding the shift lever to the bottom of the column had worked loose and the arm was just flopping to one side. They're just spread about 1" apart and screwed into aluminum to hold that lever that can be under some decent stress.
Tightened them up, and voilá! Slick shift city!
Not Bronco related of course, but lots of members here own Ford trucks too, so that long story was by way of alerting anyone that's having shift difficulties and hasn't had to deal with it before.
Paul
Showcases a good reason to run an inspection now and then on all of our underpinnings. Not every time you get in of course, like you would if you were a pilot getting into a plane, but the concept is the same.
I just learned about loose screws a little while ago too. The '93 F150 I'm "borrowing" from a neighbor has always had sloppy shifting and finally just would not go into Park at all. Then it would not start even if I held it in Park, only Neutral.
Then finally, as it got harder and harder to remove the key, it just got time to do something before anything really dire happened. But now I can see why some old Fords had that "falling out of Park" issue and driving over their owners!
Turns out the two screws holding the shift lever to the bottom of the column had worked loose and the arm was just flopping to one side. They're just spread about 1" apart and screwed into aluminum to hold that lever that can be under some decent stress.
Tightened them up, and voilá! Slick shift city!
Not Bronco related of course, but lots of members here own Ford trucks too, so that long story was by way of alerting anyone that's having shift difficulties and hasn't had to deal with it before.
Paul