The wife called and said it wasn't shifting right. Well... I told her to pull off the road and I'd come look at it. She was accidently driving on the highway at 50mph in 4LO! Amazingly it doesn't seem to have any damage. Other than it pumped out alot of trans fluid thru the vent tube. I think it still will live. Which is pretty amazing since it's got 207,000miles!

 

Did you do this? ------>

 

thats ok mine is a breadbox lol

 

You mean something like this???

 

yeah really man. I hope nothing did get fried in there. 50 in 4LO= disaster. I dont know how the thing is still moving under its own power.

 

Mmm do not want

 

Well... I guess I forgot to put that luckily it was only for about 10miles at the most. I looked at the situation as a possibility for an upgrade. I've thought about getting the stuff to put a manual trans in. But never had the reason to pull a perfectly working auto. But after I went and and looked at it. I immediately seen it was in 4Lo. I don't know how you can accidently put it in 4Lo... I can understand 4Hi(it will engage while driving)... but 4Lo would be hard. But I have accidently hit the 4Hi button when changing from park to drive in a hurry. Oh, I have the column shift autoLOL! But what is done is done... I'm on my way out to the garage to check it out. I was afraid to look at it last night.

 

Good news. Everything seems to check out okay. I'm sure it helped that the transmission and the transfer case were both rebuilt around 10,000 miles ago. But it does seem that my upper passengers side ball joint is going out now (probably from getting in a bind when she was backing up and turning). But at least nothing major broke, and there isn't any weird noises.
On a good note... I got the chance to put on my "Monroe overload shocks" on the back. It brought the rear height perfectly flush with my 1.5"t-bar crank on the front.

 

Glad to hear everything seems to be ok bud.

 

thats scary! you would have to leave it in neutral for a while before it would even shift into 4lo wouldnt you?
-mine wont do it in park, and wont do it if i go from park to drive past neutral as i would normally shifting, its just not long enough of a wait to shift.