Posted: 4/5/2009 5:50:47 AM EDT
| I have a 94 Explorer (auto transmission and 4WD) with about 170K miles. Recently after starting up from Park and driving a couple hundred feet I am hearing a loud grating noise like gears not meshing from the front of the vehicle; doesn't happen all the time, but is becoming more frequent. As soon as I hit the brake or sometimes without me doing anything the sound goes away, like gears have suddenly meshed up correctly. Do you think this is transmission problem, differential, etc. I have lots of miles on the car so don't want to sink a lot into repairs when the money might be better spent on a replacement vehicle. Thanks. |
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I'd suspect some linkage has slipped to the tranny then and it's not fully going into gear and grinding on the parking pawl a bit. Once it pops out of engagement all the way then the noise stops. It could also be that the pawl is bad also. Unlikely. On that transmission the park pawl is a shaft directly connected to the selector lever of the trans. Either it's in or it's out. There isn't any linkage that would allow being in drive and still even close to the plate. |