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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Lynda; your trick worked to get the shifter moving again. I can shift out of 
park and back into park, but it still won't start. There's no point in me 
testing it to find out which part needs to be replaced, since I don't have 
the skill or the parts to fix it anyway. I'll get it towed tomorrow.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Car problem


> Fords are notorious for having weird interconnected problems.  If the 
> brake
> pedal won't work and the trany won't come out of park, with the key on, 
> try
> "rocking" the car (push/shove it forward, let go, push/shove it forward, 
> and
> then go around to the front bumper and do the same, pushing/shoving
> backwards a couple of times) and then try to get it out of park again.
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
>
> > > I have seen automatics not be able to sense that they were in park. 
> > > Easy
> > > to
> > > check - turn the key, take it out of park, put it back in, try and 
> > > start.
> >
> > Not easy; the shift won't move if the brake pedal isn't depressed, and 
> > the
> > brake pedal won't move. It's stuck and won't move even a fraction of an
> > inch. So there's no way to take it out of Park.
> >
> > I don't get along with engines. I don't know one part from another. Heck,
> > I'm getting a scythe because I'm sick of fighting with my gas-powered 
> > weed
> > eater.
> >
> > Lynn Wigglesworth
> > Tioga Co. PA
> >
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