just went out and looked at it. there is no threadded ajuster, it is just a linkage rod, connected at the shift arm, and on the transmission, attached with a snap ring to the trans arm and an E clip to the colum shift arm. the linkage rod is bent slightly tword the engine about 12" back from the colum end, but still pretty much straight, should I bend it straight to make the linkage longer?


Matt: Without seeing what you are looking at it is real hard to advise what to do, but generally there is some way to adjust the length of this rod. But, anything is possible, automotivewise. Ford may have not put any adjustment in this one.

Anyway, what you want to do is make sure that when you have your cars shift lever all the way in park that it is truly pulling the lever on the trans ALL THE WAY INTO PARK. It sounds to me like, from age, or whatever, that the trans lever is ALMOST going into park, but not quite.

I think by lengthing the rod you are going the wrong way. I envision the rod needing to be slightly shorter, so that it pulls just a tad more.

Could be way off base on this one, but without actually climbing under the car with you, it is impossible to say what needs done. But I honestly feel your trans arm is just a little shy of getting all the way clicked into park.

Look for slop in the entire shift linkage setup as you move the shift lever, and see if something is worn out and not letting the action pull all the way it needs to go.

Don