fordomanic
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- Oct 25, 2007
- Thunderbird Year
- 1957
My '57 Bird has developed a strange problem recently where it stays stuck in Park. It started a few weeks ago as an occasional glitch whereby the shifter became balky and would not come out of Park but I could release the shifter after several atempts. The problem has increased in frequency to the point where I no longer use Park (I use neautral and the handbrake when I shut the car off). There have been a couple instances where I thought I would be stuck where I was because I could not get the gear selector out of Park (it now takes a lot of button pressing, shifter shaking and cussing). The release button on top of the shifter seems to be working insofar as it goes down and comes back up when I press/release it but it does not seem to release the linkage from the park position when I depress it. The shifter does not exhibit any issues when shifting between any other gears. Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks, Dave.