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Lyon Elliott

Lyon Elliott

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Crawled under 2004 x v6 just to take a look and found this. 1st jeep and had it for a year and never noticed anything except hard to put in and out of 4x4. It is under drivers side by transmission.
 
Does this even shift gears? It shouldn't with the linkage disconnected. This is a fairly common problem I learned after a friend had his come apart in the middle of a switch back on Black Bear Pass last year. Whole other story!
 
brad said:
Have you ever looked under the hood? That is the big square thing in front of the windshield ( that glass thing). I bet you will find out it is not a v6 but a straight 6. Let me know.
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No need to flame someone for making a mistake. In fact, that is what sets this forum apart from the others.
 
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Stinger said:
"Flame no one" said the phrophets.
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I'd guess them there phrophets never tempered any steel to make it tougher. Near miraculous changes in metal and attitudes can be accomplished with a judicious application of flame. What doesn't respond well to flame are snowflakes. Try as I might, I've never been able to get any of them little shits to stay frozen in the presence of a good flame.
 
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Stinger said:
Does this even shift gears? It shouldn't with the linkage disconnected. This is a fairly common problem I learned after a friend had his come apart in the middle of a switch back on Black Bear Pass last year. Whole other story!
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Out of curiosity, how many reports of this failure have you heard of? If you even pay a modicum of attention, it is fairly prevalent and so much so that the repair and where to get the part is very common knowledge.

So, simple question for you or anyone else that cares to answer. What is the very first indicator that the repair is needed?
 
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It happens enough that I carry a spare bushing for the shifter cable where it attaches to the transmission. The indication that repair is needed is pretty simple, the transmission won't shift.
 
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Jerry Bransford said:
It happens enough that I carry a spare bushing for the shifter cable where it attaches to the transmission. The indication that repair is needed is pretty simple, the transmission won't shift.
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Correct. At no point has anyone ever reported that the trans will still shift when that bushing is missing. If it did, no one would ever need to replace it, would they?

Occam's Razor.
 
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