88 Mustang Tranny

[Drewet88]

Everytime my girlfriend drives her automotic 88 Mustang she says its hard to shift it back into Park. I think it may be her transmission because the car is old and it still has the original transmission. I just want to see how everyone feels of this subject because I don't want her to buy a new tranny and I end up bein wrong and she still has the same problem.

[ScottyB1]

Originally Posted by Drewet88

Everytime my girlfriend drives her automotic 88 Mustang she says its hard to shift it back into Park. I think it may be her transmission because the car is old and it still has the original transmission. I just want to see how everyone feels of this subject because I don't want her to buy a new tranny and I end up bein wrong and she still has the same problem.

How does it shift into OD? If it is somewhat sloppy or loose, have the transmission looked at. Anyone with any experience with those transmissions will tell you that there is a grommet that goes bad and if there is a failure it will begin with the overdrive band. I would not think that the park position would be the first to fail unless something else is wrong.

[GTStang]

If the only thing it does wrong is go into park hard then your fine. Park in auto's is all through a actual mechanical device instead of hydraulic. So maybe the parking pawl is getting binded but there is no way to fix it without taking the whole thing apart.

Just keep driving it till it doesn't go into park and then have it rebuilt while you have that fixed cause the price difference is gonna be nill. Chances are you'll be abe to drive it a long time before you can't get it into park anymore.