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I have this same problem. A broken shifter box. I will repost a fix as soon asap.
Your shifter assembly is just shot. Happens to most older ford/mercury shifters. There is a shifter rebuild kit available online...usually Ebay, that sells for about $85 that will fix it. It comes with a new link, some plastic and rubber bushings etc. and can be easily installed from under the car. Look for a shifter rebuild kit. To prevent this from hapening again DO NOT DRIVE with your hand ON THE SHIFTER! Use it only to shift!
In my experience , my villager would not shift from park to anything. Found a T20 or T25 torx screw under dash by steering column to be really loose on shifter linkage. Works great now!
Check and see if your accelerator cable is bent and not straight. Apply a "splint" to fix
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Follow this link: http://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/646555-4r100-shift-linkage.html It walks through how to fix this problem. Good Luck.
Is it safe to put back the cable into the clip after it was loose?Yes - it just may be coming loose again in the near future. Look at any bending or if the retainer clip is misshapen that can be straightened out.
A 2003 Ford F-250 column gear shifter can be fixed by simply tightening it again. You can tighten it by turning the adjustment wheel on the lower right side of the steering column.
if it is blinking steadily without your input , button on the end of the gear shifter, then you have an internal transmission problem, or a pcm problem. Neither of which are cheap to fix.
If you only have a hammer and a shifter..................... then NO!
first most obvious, make sure the transfer case is not in neutral. If the shifter is stuck in one position you can access the floor panel over the shifter, then remove the shifter, sometimes when worn or loose they can become stuck and you can fix it by lifting the shifter out of the trans. Lastly, and you would probably already suspect this, the clutch is gone, but you would have had a lot of issues and slippage leading up to a complete failure.
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