You are probably on a slight downward slope when you observed this, so gravity pulls the car forward and the car rocks as the slack in the drive train is taken up. If you engaged the hand/foot brake there would be no movement.
Sounds like you have a busted linkage somewhere
Yes, If you're automatic transmission is not in PARK it will not start... sometimes if it is not completely pushed forward in PARK, it won't start... push it forward.
Yes. Transmission in park or in gear, and transfer case in neutral.Yes. Transmission in park or in gear, and transfer case in neutral.
'Park' or 'low gear', depending on the vehicle's transmission.
Park on a transmission is a gear that allows the transmission to idle as if its in neutral while locking the drive train to prevent the vehicle from rolling.
I put a 1990 transmission in my 89 Lincoln town car but the gear was different on went back for park and the other went forward. So we changed the gears inside the transmission but now it slips and will not get passing gear when stomped. Is the transmission bad?
All cars have a neutral gear and all cars will start in neutral. It is recommended by all vehicle manufactures that the car's transmission be left in either park or neutral and that the emergency brake be set. If the vehicle has an automatic transmission, then PARK is the safest gear, but most cars have manual transmission and no park gear, so the safest gear is NEUTRAL with the parking brake engaged.
Maybe car is in park.
Indicates gear positions of the automatic transmission; P=Park, R=Reverse, N=Neutral, D=Drive (transmission will automatically shift through all forward gears), 2=2nd gear (transmission will only shift from Low to 2nd gear), L=Low gear. Little known fact: In the auto business the indicator that displays this information is actually referred to as the "PRENDELO."
if you are setting it at the transmission so you can then align the shifter properly; park would be all the way forward : AverageJoeResto.com
The automatic Toyota may be stuck in park because of transmission problems. The transmission may be jammed or stuck in that gear.
his is a trick question.. there is no "park" with a manual transmission.. either it's in gear, or it's in neutral.