[Klownicle]

The lubbing up the underside of the shifter area seemed to fix the car not going fully into park. I have haven't had it happen since before, and I been out and about all day.

The tranny shifts hard into second and third gears. Its described in the exact manor of the range selector issue. Its like a heavy LUNGE into gear. I have read some people have to replace the tranny selector all together to fix it. However I never noticed dash lights indicating wrong gear postion, but when we opened up the gear selector as described it looked like crap.

Now I had a transmission when I first bought this truck 2 weeks after I owned it have this happen, I didn't know what it was and tookit to a tranny shop. They said Yep! Bad transmission. So I got the tranny replaced with a used one, with 40K on it. A long time after that, probley 10K miles, the tranny started to do the EXACT same thing again.

So I think I read somewhere that letting the car warm up before putting the car into gear would stop this from happening.

And volia! tranny shifts perfectly fine, and haven't had it since except one time when I didn't remember to do it and it did it. All I had to do was shut the car off, wait a minute or two, restart let it do its thing. And gone.

Its been another 10K (almost year...) miles since that problem and everything is FINE.

All I need to do is let the car sit in park once its started for 30s-1min before driving. Works everytime never failed me.

Oddly enough the car came with a auto start remote system. I wonder if the previous owner found this to fix it lol.

The fluids as FAR as I know are fine. When I last had the (first transmission) changing the fluids didn't fix it), and if I remember correctly I never tried letting it sit before changing gears from park. But i've heard there's sort of a special way to do a good change like starting the car, putting it in N or D and draining it. I know its in the FAQ or somthing.