Why won`t the auto gearbox lock the road wheels when park is selected?
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nothing is wrong as the guy above me stated, he is right you have to park on ground to check that, when you have car in air and in park the wheels will move but if you notice they move in opposite directions that mean the car cant roll and that the diff is turning the wheels like the last guy stated, also if it moves on the ground in park then like the last stated the parking paw is broken off and its because P is not meant to hold a car at a stop that's that the Ebrake is for the P is just to hold the trans from spinning if you leave it in park and don't use the ebrake it puts alot of stress on trans and when the Park paw brakes it can destroy trans.
Their is a pin that is broken in the tranny.
get some one in side of the car moving the selector around to see the linking its off a little friend of mine had a jeep the you had to put it in park and move it all around to find park
like they said, there is a pin, and it is broken, does your ebrake work? i wouldnt worry about it too much, unless your ebrake doesnt work.
Because the Park lock is in the transmission if it were on the wheels it wouldn't be a gearbox park lock but a wheel lock (Handbrake).
If you do not understand why are you trying to repair your own car. There are other road users out there that only wish to carry out their journey safely and idiots like you are tampering with things that potentially could kill them and yourself. Still no loss with the latter.
plastic gear called parking pawl. go to trany shop cause dealer will rip u off price wise.
hi
park on an auto gearbox mechanicaly locks the transmission so if you had both drive wheels off the ground as you turned one wheel the diff allowed the other wheel to turn through the diff
to check that everything is O.K. park the car on a flat piece of ground select park (handbrake off) and try to push the car if as i suspect everything is O.K. you and your mates wont make it budge
hope this helps
Sorry to see you have attracted the loony fringe (Fred 405), in my experience amature mechanics are the safest road users as they are aware of the mechanical nature of the controls they operate instead of thinking Uh if I push this I stop, and then crash head on into something because they lock the wheels, as I saw Friday. Rant ends.
Not knowing which vehicle it does sound as if the cable adjustment id OK if it gets reverse, between N and park right? so if the lever moves into Park easily it sounds like the parking pawl or dog has snapped off or its pivot has snapped, this is only a problem if the broken bits can get jammed in the gears or in an FWD in the Diff where they could lock the trans at speed or as happened to me, on a manual, smash the Diff casing open.
unless you fancy tearing the trans down and you will need a factory manual for this, Haynes Clymer etc never describe autobox teardowns, or iif you have a trans with a sump or pan at the bottom for the price of a couple of gallons of ATF and a tube of instant gasket, you could have a look see, might even see the broken bits and be able to extract them.
If all else fails and you are worried about possible failure you will need a recon trans.
Almost no one will have any experience of autoboxes, even factory courses I have been on pre launch and afterwards do not touch autoboxes so trained mechanics will be in no better position than you are. Just do not take any notice of totally ignorant people like Fred 405, I bet he would not even notice if his transmission Park feature stopped working.
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