E4OD-what did I do to it

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So I did body mounts the other day. Added a redneck lift (3/16 washers) just to give it a little more room on the turbo. Finished up some other minor things today and wanted to run it while I put the interior back together.

Wouldn't start, click or anything. Park, nuetral nothing. Figured ok I need to adjust the gear selector since it's now sitting a smidge higher and probably a little out of wack.

First attempt, no change. Second attempt I figured drop it all the way down to 1st gear, loosen the linkage and make sure it was right. After loosening the linkage I grabbed the linkage and it popped down like it was going into 1st gear. Great problem solved, but now it won't move at all.

It sounds like there is something hitting inside the tranny. I don't know jack schmitt about auto tranny's so now I'm wondering if there is something inside that may have over rotated and it came out of it's track???

Was really upbeat to get this back on the road, just had minor things to get done today before going back to work tomorrow night, now I'm to the point I want to light the thing on fire and walk away...

Any insight is greatly appreciated. Probably looking at dropping the pan and loosing almost all of my brand new fluid right??
 

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I would pull the linkage off the side of the trans and try to move it by hand before tearing into the tranny.


Tried that also. Had it completely undone from the gear selector in the cab and still was not able to move it.
 

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No. But when I did the bushings I only lifted it 1/4" past stock height to get the old bushings out, they were pretty pancaked and made sure I wasn't pulling ******* any lines or connections. The lift is only a 3/16" washer so didn't need much to slide them on top. After I was done the selector moved fine.
 

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Drop the pan and reset the manual lever. You will have to (gently) pull the detent spring, then move the manual lever back into position.

Put the manual lever in the neutral position. Install the range sensor, set it by lining the index marks. Plug it back in, you should be good to go.
 

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Drop the pan and reset the manual lever. You will have to (gently) pull the detent spring, then move the manual lever back into position.

Put the manual lever in the neutral position. Install the range sensor, set it by lining the index marks. Plug it back in, you should be good to go.


I figured the pan was going to have to be dropped. There goes $50 worth of tranny fluid...

Is there anyway to loosen the spring so I don't mess it up? The way things have gone lately I'll probably f$&# it up.
 

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Dump the fluid into a clean container, reuse it.

You could loosen the bolt holding the spring if you want.


So I'm guessing this isn't supposed to be this way?? All the ones I find online are straight. Mine also rides on top of the detent sprag?

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sure happy you found the issue. I learned something too. Disconnect the trans shifter from the trans so this wont happen if I change cab bushings...
 

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sure happy you found the issue. I learned something too. Disconnect the trans shifter from the trans so this wont happen if I change cab bushings...

Not sure if that's what did it but yeah should've....

It looks as it was actually made that way. It's spring steel so I would think it would've broke not bent. Spring steel is very brittle if not properly heted to bend it.
 

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Not sure if that's what did it but yeah should've....

It looks as it was actually made that way. It's spring steel so I would think it would've broke not bent. Spring steel is very brittle if not properly heted to bend it.

Sometimes they break, sometimes they bend. Depends on how hard the manual lever was thrown.
Most of the time the roller jumps over the manual lever detent.
 

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Ok any part gurus out there I need some info.

I found a part number for this f2tz-7e332-a. According to one part site it's not correct.

Found another part number E9TZ-7E332-A same site says this is correct.

Now the confusing part. Also found a site that says the f2tz is an alternate number for the e9tz..... :dunno

So what is correct are they the same and one superceeds the other??? Why can't they make this simple :frustrate
 
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