Re: Locked Rear end

Posted by HH56 On 2010/11/8 22:13:01

There is nothing in trans short of damage that would prevent linkage from moving. Even the park pawl is spring loaded and while it may stick, the rest of linkage should move. I would look at the base of steering column. When you pull the lever back, the arm at bottom that the linkage connects to should move forward slightly to clear a slight locking detent spot in the curved or triangle shaped sector. If it does that, then look at the linkage going to trans. There are a couple of spots it could be binding or something may have been bent.

EDIT: It is highly unlikely, and I don't recall hearing of it but I suppose it is possible after all that sitting that the manual valve could have gotten stuck in trans. That would prevent the linkage from moving. Would have taken some unusual circumstances to do so because the fluid should have prevented any thing like that from happening. If all else fails, then you may have to disconnect the driveshaft so you can move the car until you can work on it..

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