This vehicle has 30k miles and has worked flawlessly the past 3 years.
Recently however moving the shift lever sounded like crunching a bowl of cornflakes and two weeks ago it started popping out of drive.
I have to hold the lever to keep it in place.
Checked for codes, and transmission performance, none and normal, concluded it was the linkage.
Lubed the front one on the transmission which I could reach from the engine compartment to no effect.
Today I jacked it up and lubed the rear one at the shift lever first with wd40 then with rustcheck.
Not hard to see why it got missed, it's over the exhaust pipe behind a big aluminum heat sink, not in the clear like the illustration below.
The crunching has stopped , the lever now moves all the way into drive and there's no suggestion of it wanting to pop out.
Frank
Recently however moving the shift lever sounded like crunching a bowl of cornflakes and two weeks ago it started popping out of drive.
I have to hold the lever to keep it in place.
Checked for codes, and transmission performance, none and normal, concluded it was the linkage.
Lubed the front one on the transmission which I could reach from the engine compartment to no effect.
Today I jacked it up and lubed the rear one at the shift lever first with wd40 then with rustcheck.
Not hard to see why it got missed, it's over the exhaust pipe behind a big aluminum heat sink, not in the clear like the illustration below.
The crunching has stopped , the lever now moves all the way into drive and there's no suggestion of it wanting to pop out.
Frank
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