Lively2524
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- Feb 8, 2020
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- Location
- Texas
- Vehicle Year
- 1992
- Make / Model
- Ford Ranger
- Transmission
- Automatic
Recently bought a 1992 Ranger 3.0l 2wd automatic that had been parked for years. Original 45k miles, clean little truck. Was told from previous owner that the transmission was out and that was the reason for parking it. Got the truck back running and starts and idles great. The problem with the transmission that I'm seeing is when shifting from Park to reverse nothing happens. Then shift from reverse to neutral and its in drive. Shift to any of the other gears and they all move the vehicle in forward. When in reverse it seems as if it's in park. With the vehicle running I'm unable to find neutral. If I turn the vehicle off and shift to reverse with it off you can move the vehicle as if in neutral. I have not driven the vehicle down the road to see if while in drive everything seems normal. I've even noticed that sometimes after shifting through the gears and the turning truck off and then back on it seems to lunge forward slightly as if it's in drive, even though it's in park. It's very strange what it's doing. The first thing that I think of would be the shift cable but when I crawl under and have someone run through the gears it seams to move fine. Anyone have any ideas?