Well, this is going to be a kind of long boring story to tell you what happened but I really need the help. It started a few months ago when I was changing the tranny fluid and filter, I found a pretty large piece of metal that looked like it was part of a circle ( i have a pic if you want) I know the transmissions aren't great so ive been lucky its lasted this long. Im sure my truck would be even better than it is with a new tranny but yesterday drew the line. I was at the river with some friends parked next to a friends car. The truck was running in park with both my foot on the break and the parking break on. I had four people in the cab so the front row was also full. Lets just say some of my friends aren't too intelligent.

The next part of the story may be a lil' inaccurate so bare with me. The next thing I remember is shifting into reverse and my truck starts spinning the tires and peeling out (im pretty sure this was after i removed the parking break) we go flying backwards and i knew there was this huge boulder behind us so the first thing i do is throw the truck into park because my foot was already on the break and nothing else came to mind. This was all in probably 1-2 seconds. After sh***ing my pants I realized that one of my brilliant friends had his foot on the gas.

So my question, how screwed am I since i used the tranny to stop my truck when it was flying backwards at probably 10-20 mph? Ive driven it probably 50 miles since then and it doesn't seem too much different. I am just afraid to pound on it and make something explode .

Sorry for the long story but I could use some help!

 

Wow.

There's no telling how long you've got 'til something breaks...consider it a miracle that the park pawl didn't grenede when you threw it in park. If you didn't believe in a "higher power" before, believe now

 

I think dropping it into reverse with the motor revved probably did more damage than slamming it into park ... and probably not all that much if you haven't seen anything yet. Not sure if there's any difference between N and P besides engaging the prawl. I've never heard anyone cry about slipping it into N at speed ...

You were on dirt?

 

The only that that it would have hurt is the parking pawl, and if it still works, your pretty much good to go.

 

Hahah... this reminds of this one time, I was turning out of our parking lot, and when I was turning the wheel to the straight-forward position, for whatever reason, my hand moved the shifter from Drive to Reverse (I was probably going 10-15MPH). All I remember is hearing the rear tires sqeeling (sp?), me wondering, "WTF?" and looking down, freaking out, moving it to Drive, and it's worked fine for the last 5,000 miles.

 

wow Sehr, so is it new friends or new tranny first? i had friends do stuff like that, and i still shift my girlfriends car from drive to neutral at red lights, so i guess im not much better.

 

sehr...i have a very similar story...we party up in the woods so i drive my truck up the trail so people dont have to walk...well my cab was full...me another dude and 2 girls...then my bed had a few ppl in it also...so we roll up to the party and im backing up to the fire so we can sit on the tail gate...well i stopped backing up because people were in my way and not moving and the girl sitting next to me decides to turn around and sure enough mashed the gas to the floor...my foot was on the brake and i realized this was happening and there were a bunch of people in my way so i stood on the brake and the broad realized what she was doing and luckily i stopped without hitting anyone...everyone was scared sh!tless tho

 

Thanks for all the feedback.

Is the pawl the brake built into the transmission?

Forgot to mention ive driven it about 150 miles since then and it seems fine... at least i hope