FrigidFTSup
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Can you blame him?
Starting Question for Mechanics
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oldngray
nowhere special
3 lefts make a right though.
Wally
BrownCafe Innovator & King of Puns
Now Scratch's truck smells like Blooming Onion gas.
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pickup
Guest
That actually makes sense. It took me three turns in logic to "get it".
Gear
Parts on Order
If the problem happens only with the fob its a keyless problem. Probably loose connections as stated before.
If it happens with the key and fob its a truck problem. If the vehicle has a physical key that makes the keyless an add on accessory.
GM examples
shifter and or cable
Neutral switch
Allison examples
shifter and or cable.
Lets say your shift cable is worn out/stretched. It might go into park but not enough for the switch to register. Going from park to drive hundreds of times a day causes this. Now you have a no start in park problem with fob and key. Mechanic figures it out, replaces cable, but doesn't fully adjust the cable. He adjusted it enough to start in park. Maybe it could have used a few more turns to get a few more hundred shifts. A year later, boom same problem.
As far as letting it sit for 15 minutes and everything is fine, I would have to see the truck. Going off your complaint Im thinking, depending on a gm or allison, probably a cable. Im thinking during the 15 minutes you're messing with the shifter and just wiggled it enough to get park to register. Being a driver you're more likely to notice the time and not think about the moving components.
Any time a vehicle with an automatic transmission doesn't start in park try it in neutral. Especially vehicles that are slammed into park hundreds of times a day.
If I get a no start in park with key and fob write up, I replace the shifter, cable and if its a gm, the neutral switch. If 1 went bad how long for the others? I don't know, so I replace them together. I dont get a bonus for bringing the company under budget.
If it happens with the key and fob its a truck problem. If the vehicle has a physical key that makes the keyless an add on accessory.
GM examples
shifter and or cable
Neutral switch
Allison examples
shifter and or cable.
Lets say your shift cable is worn out/stretched. It might go into park but not enough for the switch to register. Going from park to drive hundreds of times a day causes this. Now you have a no start in park problem with fob and key. Mechanic figures it out, replaces cable, but doesn't fully adjust the cable. He adjusted it enough to start in park. Maybe it could have used a few more turns to get a few more hundred shifts. A year later, boom same problem.
As far as letting it sit for 15 minutes and everything is fine, I would have to see the truck. Going off your complaint Im thinking, depending on a gm or allison, probably a cable. Im thinking during the 15 minutes you're messing with the shifter and just wiggled it enough to get park to register. Being a driver you're more likely to notice the time and not think about the moving components.
Any time a vehicle with an automatic transmission doesn't start in park try it in neutral. Especially vehicles that are slammed into park hundreds of times a day.
If I get a no start in park with key and fob write up, I replace the shifter, cable and if its a gm, the neutral switch. If 1 went bad how long for the others? I don't know, so I replace them together. I dont get a bonus for bringing the company under budget.
Thanks for the info. It's an Allison 5 speed, that's been replaced three times in 350K miles. The shifter has come loose before and been replaced several times. 170 stops a day so it probably gets shifted 400 times a day.
Gear
Parts on Order
2000 times a week! Definitely some wear there.
I like the Allison transmissions. Garbage companies have been running them for decades. Unfortunately we get the lowest bid remans. You know they're tearing them down and only replacing the failed part. A quality reman is completely rebuilt not just repaired.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
My favorite is driving an old stick shift down the highway and the mechanic forgot to latch those rubber staps back to the engine compartment and it catches air and comes flying at u. Lmao.
BSWALKS
Fugitive From Reality
Had That happen to me. Scared the shift out of me. Lol
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
O yeah. Most employees with over 20 years in probably has had it happen a time or 2.
Indecisi0n
Well-Known Member
Not me. I am a professional.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
Should probably be part of the pre trip honestly.
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
PT Car Washer
Banned
Why did you not catch it when you checked the oil?
BakerMayfield2018
Fight the power.
Lmao. Must of slipped my mind.
PT Car Washer
Banned
You and a lot of other "professional drivers". The reason I have to add 7 quarts of oil to some package cars before taking them out.
