it "slipped"in park....??

[redneckdr]

when i parked on a slight incline, front uphill, today, it went into park easily with my foot on the brake and the engine running. i shut the engine down and let my foot off the brake. about 30 seconds later, it rolled back a short distance and "clunked" down in its bowels--then stopped and didn't move again. sure surprised me!! have i got a problem, or had it just not seated the trans lock??

 

[Mopar-muscle]

red, sounds like the it wasn't all the way in , but if you were able to remove the key it should have been . do you sometimes have a hard time pulling the key out , having to push up on the shift handle ? if so your linkage probably needs adjustment .

 

[redneckdr]

slipped

john:

nope. no prior problem from the shift lever at all. all gears are where they're supposed to be with the indicator centered on the right letter. i wondered if something had loosened down on the transmission so that there was too much play in the linkage. drove it since, and no problem. acts totally normal. i guess it just hadn't fully engaged, slipped one "cog" and caught. sure did startle me, though. i had the door open when it happened, and was getting out of the truck. if it had run away, i'd have had trouble stopping it.

 

[Mopar-muscle]

herb , just to be on the safe side you may want to crawl under and grab hold of the linkage and make sure its not sloppy . otherwise i'd say your good to go , probably was only part way in and jumped ... good reason to get in the habit of using the e brake , keeps the rear brakes adjusted among other things ...

 

[redneckdr]

e-brake

i've got the 01. 5, so have 4 wheel discs. e-brake doesn't clamp the discs, does it? with discs adjustment of the rear brakes shouldn't be an issue??

 

[nps]

redneckdr,



The rear disk brakes have a small drum brake in addition to the disk. Looks like a cylinder the size of a coffee can running through the middle of the rotor. It is the drum brake that provides the emergency stopping power.



If it works, then adjustment shouldn't be a problem. Unlike drum service brakes, the disk emergency brake never gets any wear during normal operation. So unless you have a habit of driving with the emergency brake on, you should not need to adjust it. The disk pads for the service brakes are self-adjusting.



Neil

 

[BK]

redneckdr ,



While your foot was still on the brake, did you set the Parking brake?



Didnt catch whether you did or not in your thread...



But we're not supposed to put the weight of the truck on the parking pin in the transmission.



I have a friend that has a 95 gasser... and his auto shift is "loose". I have a 99 CTD and he drove it and commented on the fact that my shift hasnt become loose yet...



Don't know why the gasser auto becomes loose, but your thread brought to mind his comment.

 

[hammong]

FWIW: Putting your truck in "Park" is not designed to hold your truck steady on an incline. Whenever you're on a hill, you should ALWAYS use your parking (ala emergency) brake to assist holding the hill.



The parts in your transmission that "park" the transmission are weak. One day you might find your RAM chewing grass at the bottom of the hill, not where you left it.



Greg

 

[redneckdr]

parking brake

embarrassed to say i didn't set the brake and will have to learn a new habit. i quit using the parking brake on my vehicles when i still liced in the cold midwest, and in the winter i had the bands freeze to the drums a coule of times when had been wet and then turned off cold. doesn't get cold enough here in ga very often, to freeze drum brakes anyway. i'll be better, i promise!! glad it didn't break the pin when it slipped!