After my tranny is in,parking is not fully engaged,i put the park in and the car still moves,and it sounds tk tk tk tk tk tk,but sometimes it holds,this is very dangerous and i want to fix it asap.-
Any pictures of what i have to adjust ????
im sure its pretty simple but im not sure if it's about the shift selector or other place i have to adjust.-
thanks

 

The nut at the shifter cable to bracket leeds to be loosened, then adjusted.
Look on the drivers side of the trans pan, near the exhaust pipe.

 

thanks pete !

 

Once you get it adjusted, I have also read that using the parking brake is easier on the tranny - when parking, set the brake before taking your foot off the brake pedal, then the car won't roll any and put strain on the transmission.

 

it dissengaged alone !
happened last night, the shifter is acting funny again
what can we do to fix it there ??????

 

Calderone, first try what Pete suggested. Look underneath your car, you will see a shifter cable that comes inside the transmission tunnel and connects to the shift selector with a nut on the driver's side of the case. It is pictured here:


You want to loosen the lower nut and disconnect the gear selector cable (covered by a plastic accordian protector, pictured in lower right corner of previous picture). Then you want to move the selector on the transmission case to the very front, meaning the bottom part of the selector will be towards the engine and the top part will point towards the rear of the car. Then you will go inside the car and make sure you have your shifter on Park. Then reconnect the shifter selector cable to the tranny.

However, I do believe when I tried this method, it was hard to stretch the selector cable all the way to the park position, so I believe I counted the clicks of the selector (on the tranny) until it was in Neutral (all the way forward is P, then one click back is Reverse, then Neutral, then overdrive, D, 2, and 1). So you would have the bottom part of the selector all the way forwards then move 2 clicks backwards and make sure the shifter in the car is in Neutral then connect the nut and you're set. You can follow this procedure for any of the gears and it will be right as long as the selector on the transmission or the shifter in the car don't move while you reconnect the cable to the transmission case. At the end, just check that when the shifter in the car is on Park, the bottom of the level is all the way forwards, slanted like this, but more extreme (you get the point): / .

If this doesn't fix it, you may have a problem with the nut inside the case:



Or maybe the lugs on the outside of the reaction internal gear - if these are rounded enough, there can be no Park (don't worry, its probably just the shifter cable).


Parking Mechanism:

 

thanks !
excellent explanation !
i know the outer nut regulation,its an easy fix,we have tried that 3 times but somehow it looses alone and the shifter is funny (not so much) again.-
Im suspecting the inner nut is out of adjustment or something.-
we have tried regulate it on PARK only
i will try on 1st.put the nut while its on 1st,so less tension to the cable.-
thanks again !

 

Gosh, I just read your other post in C4 Gen and you're one lucky guy. Get that hood-release cable fixed! ¿Tu tienes mucha suerte, eh?

 

hey,i saw your unedited post ....

i wish i knew italy
Never been there
thanks !

 

I don't know why I thought Italy! I think someone said it in another post and then I realized you were from Chile!

 

Update,it was the shifter cable,replaced it and problem solved !
Posted this just in case this happens to you,always check your cable.-
It went longer than its supposed to be.-