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86' ranger wont go into nuetral or reverse


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Help please!

My sons ranger wont go into nuetral or reverse. it is parked in a parking lot against a curb, we could go forward and get up onto the sidewalk but we can not get it into nuetral to roll it backwards nor into reverse.

We are at home reading through the haynes trying to get a direction.

First what transmission does a 86 ranger 4 wheel drive with a 2.9L V6 have?
The lever is on the floor and it has 1 2 D and OD N R P.

I have looked at the linkage and everything. it goes through all the gears physically but something inside the transmission is obviously not right.
 


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Worst case...block the wheels and drop the driveshaft. I'm going to delete your other identical thread so there is only the one.
 

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alwaysFlOoReD said:
Worst case...block the wheels and drop the driveshaft. I'm going to delete your other identical thread so there is only the one.
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We got the truck home, drug it out of the parking space and drove it home.

Now that it is away from the curb we see that in neutral it will roll forward but not back. I am not sure it is a transmission problem. Why would it roll forward but not back?
 

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We got the truck home, drug it out of the parking space and drove it home.

Now that it is away from the curb we see that in neutral it will roll forward but not back. I am not sure it is a transmission problem. Why would it roll forward but not back?
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We are getting somewhere... its 4 wheel drive related. for a minute we got it to roll both directions, cant get it to do it again. the 4 wheel drive was in nuetral, not 2H when it rolled, but now the 4 wheel drive will not move at all. not sure what it is in.
 
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SpencerC said:
We are getting somewhere... its 4 wheel drive related. for a minute we got it to roll both directions, cant get it to do it again. the 4 wheel drive was in nuetral, not 2H when it rolled, but now the 4 wheel drive will not move at all. not sure what it is in.
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That might not narrow it down. Putting the transfer case in neutral disengages the input from the output. So you just disconnected everything behind the transmission. If you were in 2wd when the problem started, I would still bet on a transmission problem.

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Take out the drive shaft and see what happens. If it still won't move the problem is in the diff.
 

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That might not narrow it down. Putting the transfer case in neutral disengages the input from the output. So you just disconnected everything behind the transmission. If you were in 2wd when the problem started, I would still bet on a transmission problem.

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You were right. We got the nuetral issue figured out, it is only reverse that is an issue.

With both levers in nuetral it rolls both ways. With 4 wheel drive in 2H and transmission in nuetral it only rolls forward.

But no matter what the 4 wheel drive is in reverse does not work.

Its not brakes related because it rolls fine,

I dont think it is differential related either.

It simply will not go in reverse

Will it hurt to drive it without knowing what the problem is?
 
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Will it hurt to drive it without knowing what the problem is?
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It might. Personally, I would put it where it's going to be worked on and hide the keys until it's fixed.
 
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