Multiple Issues After Off Roading Incident (Rant)
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Multiple Issues After Off Roading Incident (Rant)
If this belongs in the non-tech section, my apologies and feel free to move it.
I decided to do a little off roading in the old girl a month or so ago. While driving on a trail thats not used much, it became overgrown, and I couldn't really see the trail that well. I started driving up a small embankment, and then the front of the truck just dropped, and everything got hung up on the nerf bars, frame, ect.
Tip #1: If you can't see the trail, do some scouting ahead on foot.
While trying to shift the truck in to Park, it was very hard to move and I ended up breaking the shift linkage bushing. I jumped out and shifted the truck in to park manually. Needless to say, I was alone, and had no means to yank the truck off this rock/hill/thing. I ended up walking out of the woods, and leaving the truck there overnight.
Tip #2: Don't off road alone on a trail you haven't been on in over 5 years.
The next day my friend and I went up there with his jeep, and with some minor assistance, we pulled it out of there just fine. The truck drove out of the woods fine, until I got up to the road. The truck wouldn't leave first gear at all. At the time, I didn't think anything of it. I thought I manually shifted it in first on accident. (Don't forget, the bushing was broken, had to shift by hand) I get home, and leave the truck alone in the drive way for a few days. (its not my daily drive.) I finally drove the truck up on ramps to see if there was damage. Wellll there was! I smashed in the transmission pan, and crushed the Y pipe. UGH! Off to napa! I bought new bushings, some cob job pipes for the Y pipe, new transmission pan, new gasket for the pan and new filter (Taking it off, why not replace the filter)
I cut out the crushed part of the Y pipe, and then removed the pan. Looking inside the pan, I crushed the oil filter, and saw a hanging piece of plastic with wires attached. At the time, I thought it was just the holder for the plastic that broke, and I would be fine because it was still hooked up. Replaced the filter, replaced the gasket, replaced the pan, cob jobbed the Y pipe (I love my truck, but not spending $300 on a new Y pipe with the cat). I filled up the pan with ATF +4 fluid, backed it off the ramps and took it for a drive.
WELL it still doesn't shift out of first. Ugh. I start doing some research, and as some of you already might know, that little hanging piece of plastic was not just a holder. It was the governor pressure sensor, which controls the up shifting. It wasn't a holder that broke, it was the damn sensor that plugs in to the transmission. UGH
Tip #3: If you see something out of place or broken, don't assume its fine
So obviously I have to buy the sensor and take the pan BACK off to replace this sensor.
Tip #4: If you wanna play, some times you have to pay. In time AND money.
Well thats my rant, and hopefully if anyone else has the "My truck won't shift out of 1st problem" might want to replace that sensor, and possibly the solenoid.
I decided to do a little off roading in the old girl a month or so ago. While driving on a trail thats not used much, it became overgrown, and I couldn't really see the trail that well. I started driving up a small embankment, and then the front of the truck just dropped, and everything got hung up on the nerf bars, frame, ect.
Tip #1: If you can't see the trail, do some scouting ahead on foot.
While trying to shift the truck in to Park, it was very hard to move and I ended up breaking the shift linkage bushing. I jumped out and shifted the truck in to park manually. Needless to say, I was alone, and had no means to yank the truck off this rock/hill/thing. I ended up walking out of the woods, and leaving the truck there overnight.
Tip #2: Don't off road alone on a trail you haven't been on in over 5 years.
The next day my friend and I went up there with his jeep, and with some minor assistance, we pulled it out of there just fine. The truck drove out of the woods fine, until I got up to the road. The truck wouldn't leave first gear at all. At the time, I didn't think anything of it. I thought I manually shifted it in first on accident. (Don't forget, the bushing was broken, had to shift by hand) I get home, and leave the truck alone in the drive way for a few days. (its not my daily drive.) I finally drove the truck up on ramps to see if there was damage. Wellll there was! I smashed in the transmission pan, and crushed the Y pipe. UGH! Off to napa! I bought new bushings, some cob job pipes for the Y pipe, new transmission pan, new gasket for the pan and new filter (Taking it off, why not replace the filter)
I cut out the crushed part of the Y pipe, and then removed the pan. Looking inside the pan, I crushed the oil filter, and saw a hanging piece of plastic with wires attached. At the time, I thought it was just the holder for the plastic that broke, and I would be fine because it was still hooked up. Replaced the filter, replaced the gasket, replaced the pan, cob jobbed the Y pipe (I love my truck, but not spending $300 on a new Y pipe with the cat). I filled up the pan with ATF +4 fluid, backed it off the ramps and took it for a drive.
WELL it still doesn't shift out of first. Ugh. I start doing some research, and as some of you already might know, that little hanging piece of plastic was not just a holder. It was the governor pressure sensor, which controls the up shifting. It wasn't a holder that broke, it was the damn sensor that plugs in to the transmission. UGH
Tip #3: If you see something out of place or broken, don't assume its fine
So obviously I have to buy the sensor and take the pan BACK off to replace this sensor.
Tip #4: If you wanna play, some times you have to pay. In time AND money.
Well thats my rant, and hopefully if anyone else has the "My truck won't shift out of 1st problem" might want to replace that sensor, and possibly the solenoid.
