99 Honda Passport issues with parking..

[Klownicle]

I dont' need parking lessons just to say...

Anywho, as the title stats I have a 99 honda passport 3.2l automatic.

Awhile ago I had a parking related problem, where I could go to park the car, and the shifter wouldn't go into park and stay. I would put it in park, and it would feel like it was cushioned when it went to the park postion. I could easily move the shifter out of park WITHOUT having to press the shifter button.

Well, my mechanic sprayed some wd40? around the shifter area in and outside? (i think) the car and it seemed to fix the problem.

Just this past week its started up again, now a couple notes. When this happens, I cannot take the cars key out untill I can get the car perfectly in park.

Today at the gas station it happened again, and the only way I could fix it was to drive ahead and hit the breaks hard (driving a small distance didn't fix it). Could have been just pure luck thoe..

It also happened one time where I had a friend push the car (while technically in park) and I was able to get it fully in park and remove the key. Could have been luck also..

Some more notes,

Just recently we had some bad rain and roads were badly flooded, the truck went through some preety high water. Need some greasen again?

Also, im preety sure I have the paten'd range more selector problem, I regreased it and it didn't fix the problem, however letting the car warm up for about 30-1m fixes the hard shifts. I never replaced the range mode selector becuase I found warming up fixed it.



That about does it... LOL..

[Klownicle]

Just went to my mehcanic's house and we regreased some stuff like before. We'll see if it corrects it again. It seems to be shifting better right now.

[FL 3.2L]

You can adjust the linkage near the neutral safety switch on the driver's side of the transmission.

Is your ATF level good?

[amigo-2k]

I wonder if it is related to the problems folks have when their key gets stuck in the ignition?

[trooperbc]

Originally Posted by Klownicle

....Also, im preety sure I have the paten'd range more selector problem, I regreased it and it didn't fix the problem, however letting the car warm up for about 30-1m fixes the hard shifts. I never replaced the range mode selector becuase I found warming up fixed i....

if warming it up fixes the problem, then it probably is not the mode selector switch, but it might be something else that needs attention before it becomes a rebuild candidate.

what exactly were (are) your symptoms for the "paten'd range mode selector problem" ?

first on the list is what FL said, check the ATF level and condition. next, well let's hear what is happening exactly and see if it indicates the next step...


//bc

[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.