Buldog9
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So today I had no work( Electrical Contractor), I thought it would be a good idea to replace that leaky shifter seal. Knowing the tool I bought was not as advertized, I went to my local Home Depot and got a carbide bit for my Dremel. 2 hours later and a lot of back and forth under car(checking clearance) I was able to excise that nasty offending seal. Turns out installing the new seal was going to be a bit of a chore. I just could not get any leverage or angle to get that thing to fully seat evenly. It is a good thing I bought 2 seals, because the 2nd one fit better and seated well. Now for the bad news. I did, in fact, have to remove the pan, valve assembly and whatnot because of the trouble removing seal. Anyhow, got it all back together, new gasket, new fluid. Fired it up and guess what? No leaks (will know for sure in the morning,but things are looking good at this point). The bad news is I have also created a new problem. When shifting,the column shifter does not click into gears. It just sort of slides into the location. Tranny does work, goes into reverse,park,drive,etc, but there is no locking into gear. I think maybe I need to retrace my steps tomorrow and remove linkage first and try moving shift mechanism on tranny to see whats up. I will say that everything was working fine and I believe still is but somewhere in reassembly I did something wrong. Any thoughts on this issue? Thanks for any input.
