Transmission Not Responding To Shifter (AW4)

[Broke]

Worked on the truck last week some more, threw in a headlight switch to no effect (was free from PO and took ten minutes, no skin off my back) and found out the PO also gave me the wrong speedometer cable, drove it out of the shop and parked it. Came back this week with a new cable, started the truck and the transmission didn't seem to do anything. No clunk indicating the parking pawl had released, no change in engine load, nada. What should I look towards first? I pulled the lower and instrument panel dash bezels when working last week. The lower I reattached to hook the TCU back up at the end. 

[Minuit]

Floor shift or column shift? In either case, there's a cable that goes from the base of the steering column (column shift) or from the base of the shifter lever (floor shift) to the transmission. Both are attached to a bracket right after they come out of the column/floor handle. Make sure they haven't popped off. Make sure there's even a cable going to the driver side of the trans first.

[HOrnbrod]

Crawl under and look at where the shifter cable connects to the AW4. Make sure the cable isn't broken and hasn't come off the adjustment clamp or the transmission shift lever. Looks like this:

 

 

[Broke]

Alright, I'll give that a check once I get back on monday. It is in fact a column shift. Would leaving the column slightly loose have a similar effect? I left the bezel off and the column not quite tight against the dash when I put it away last week. 

[HOrnbrod]

It shouldn't unless the column was really loose. Take a look at the shift cable where it connects to the column base under the dash too. It sounds like you might have a broken shift cable.

[Broke]

Well at least I'll have the wheel pulled for the blinker switch if that's the issue and the cable snapped. Resident Jeep old-timer took one look at the rear light problem and my steering column and told me my turn signal switch was going out, which was causing both the short in the rears and the turn signal lever to flop around and not go back to center. Even if that isn't the cause of the signal problem I'll have the lever fixed. Is there really enough tension on it when sitting for it to break while parked? It worked completely fine when I parked it.

[HOrnbrod]

Not if it's adjusted correctly. The pics I posted above is where you adjust the cable. But since they stretch with use, the adjustment is normally to get the slack out of the cable.

[Broke]

This thing is probably gonna be the issue, right?

 

 

Was loose enough to pull off really easily. Is there a replacement for just the bushing? I wasn't able to confirm it because the first cold day all year here seems to have tanked the battery, but I'll try it tomorrow and see if it works. I heard more noises than last week when I yanked on the shifter with the key turned to ACC, though.

[HOrnbrod]

Crappy video:

 

 

 

http://www.bushingfix.com/

 

SI2KIT

[Broke]

Problem solved, truck moves, repair kit ordered. Wish everything was this simple to diagnose and fix.