1999-2006 Chevy GMC Truck Shift Mechanism Replacement
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2020
- I advise replacing with OEM! Not autozone crap! It will break
Tools you will need:
7mm & 10mm socket and extension
Flat head screw driver
Thin Pick
T27 Torx Bit/Possible other one needed for under steering wheel shroud (not every vehicle has the same bolt)
Pliers/socket wrench for battery cable.
Place the vehicle in park on a safe flat ground beforehand.
Disconnect your battery’s negative terminal cable.
Engage the parking brake, turn the vehicle to accessory and shift your lever down to gear 1.
Remove your instrument cluster dash bezel, then shift back into park, and shut off vehicle.
Remove the kick panel under the steering wheel ( 2 bolts) remove the metal pan surrounding the steering column ( 4 bolts)
Remove the tilt shift mechanism with a flat head screwdriver. Then remove the top shroud around the hazard light switch by loosening where the two pieces meet.
Check under the lower shroud for any bolts holding it on, if present, remove the bolts. Take off the lower shroud.
Using your flat head, gently slide the rectangular clip on top of the shift mechanism off of the column. Then unplug your tow haul connector following the wire from the shifter down to the connector.
Turn the key to run, and shift down again to loosen the bolt in front of your shifter insert slot, and remove the park indicator that clips along the top.
Put the shifter back into park, then remove the shifter and the 2 remaining bolts on the mechanism, one closer to you and one down on the low side of the mechanism.
Remove the white clip that is securing a black cable into the mechanism.
Take your thin pick, insert it into the tiny hole over the ignition.
Begin to turn your key to run as you insert the pick downwards, you will feel it catch inside. Press the key like you would start it and gently push down until the lock cylinder releases.
Remove the lock cylinder.
Take your large flat head screw driver and put it into the green square inside the ignition slot, turn it back to off.
The black cable along the side of the mechanism should release, pull it out.
Once the shift mechanism is loose and dropped, take your flat head follow the mechanism downwards until you see the two arms that clip onto it.
Pop each side off by putting the flat head into the space between the arm and mechanism and turning sideways.
Replace mechanism and install the three bolts on, then finish by connecting the lower arms back on.
Insert your flat head back into the green square and turn to the off position.
Slide the black cable (slide the pieces together first) back into the slot and turn to run. Then insert the white clip back in.
Reinsert your shifter and screw it in.
Clip the connector for the tow haul in.
Snap the tow-haul wires into the mechanisms respective spots.
Put the green rectangular piece that clips on to the top side of the mechanism back in- (park sensor)
Reinsert your ignition cylinder in the forward run position, then flip back to the off position with your key.
Test the shift mechanism by going through all 7 gears to confirm functionality.
Reinsert the park shift indicator onto the shift mechanism in front of where the shifter goes into.
Reinstall the rounded metal cover and the 4 bolts back on to the steering column
Reinstall the bottom and top shroud on your steering wheel.
Reinstall the kick panel and tilt wheel lever
Shift down to 1 and put the dash bezel back on.
Reconnect battery.
Done! - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
The Mann!
Thanks for the tip about the ignition release, saved my butt. Had the cable break inside the wire so the pin would just stick out/couldnt shift, but I couldnt take it off the ignition end without that tip!
Awesome I’m so glad you got it figured out. These are such a PITA. But once you do it you won’t forget lol.
When you use pik, remove the ignition switch with key intact. Then use the screw to turn the notch backwards, counterclockwise to release the cable.
Been trying to unhook this for an hour thank god I found this video with the rotating backwards to unlatch it thank you
Glad I could help you jake
I was starting to lose hope that I could do this myself. Thank you so much for the video and for the tidbit about rotating the thing behind the ignition cylinder. I literally purchased a service manual and all it says is "Disconnect the park lock cable assembly", no additional clarification.
You’re welcome! glad I could help. I had the same issue no videos ever explained that part about the cable. I’m surprised the service manual didn’t have the proper info. Wow. Nice GM 😶
Thank you so much for your video and explaining it. I appreciate it very much as what a person figures it out on their own they generally break things. Lol.
Got to work on those camera skills my man! Thanks for sharing though. There's some helpful pieces of information.
Sorry I got to talking extra in this. It’s a lot to do on your own for your first video. Been a minute but I had to come back and say it. Since this has blown up
Can you tell me the name of the wire you suggested videoing when you take it out?? Possibly.
Patricia I’m not sure of the exact name, but it connects from the shift mechanism into the steering column and is released by the lock cylinder
Late Update: this shift mechanism from O’reilys was garbage, didn’t shift past 2 in the low gear range, I snagged one of a junkyard truck (has to have key in truck, so u can turn ignition) never had any problems after. Truck is sold. I just bought a avalanche. Check out my new content
My truck won’t go into park or reverse then I kept messing with it and it finally went into park any ideas?
You might have broke the linkage down below or it got disconnected. What exactly did you touch?
What do I do if mine doesn’t “catch” I’ve been at this for about an hour and it won’t come out and it doesn’t click.
You have to take the ignition cylinder out, rotate the green square inside the area you removed the cylinder from to off. then slide the cable out. Afterwards, put the cable back in as the square is positioned in “off” then put it back to run and insert the lock cylinder in with the corresponding groove
And to rotate the square use a large flat head screwdriver
Why don't you just show how to replace it instead of explain it. Better to do it instead of just talking
I had to work on it overnight in the freezing cold till my truck could shift gears again. Putting stuff back together the next day I decided to go over it. It’s all there watch the video as you do it
Where can I buy the white clip from?
That’s a hard one. Probably nowhere but a junkyard would have it. Go there and take the top/bottom shroud off, then slide it out and youre good.That’s what I would do.
Your video helped a lot Ty.
@@ald9079 your welcome. New content coming soon by the way
Why make a replacement video and don't replace it just explain
I said was pouring out and dark outside. I had to figure it out so I could drive the truck in the AM
There is a super easy way to do this. Simply taking the other end of that cable off. I will attach the other TH-cam who explains it.
th-cam.com/video/JfvGqGNZ4tM/w-d-xo.html
Good video ,But it almost looks as if you were pissed off in the preliminary stages of this repair , Like maybe you snatched plastic and broke clips, Believe me Bro , I most definitely get it. I'm pushing 50 so back in my hay day things were soooooo much simpler . Automobiles came apart and went back together better back in the 80s and 70s. ..All of this plastic, and plastic fasteners and clips to have to deal with. Four or five different size screws or bolts to contend with , And everything jam packed into a space ya cant get or see into to replace something you shouldn't have an issue with for another two hundred thousand miles if you were ever suppose to ..It's just like they say ," Boy they sure don't make shit like they used to" I usually end up with quite a few extra screws on these newer ones, Im just " old school" back when you could fix almost anything on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere without a You tube video and almost no tools , Girlfriend holding a flashlight for you never pointing it at what you're trying to do , No cell phone to call a tow truck , sounds like it sucked but it was so cool , Pulled a motor, overhauled it reinstalled it , and did it all with a pair of vise grips that didn't slip , a frigging pipe wrench and a tire tool , Unpredictable random dancing light the holder of which was so clueless but so cute though, No screws left over , No computer to reboot Datsun B210 back when the Japanese had to be our friends , Gas was 78 cents a gallon but all that had to end , Even in 1990 it was ninety eight cents at the pumps , But this recent jump in price is not Vladimir's fault , No. It's actually all because Biden's a chump with no balls , and so is Kamala ,, Bring back Trump , finish the wall , Send Vladimir into the stratosphere , No adversary that I'd fear if I had an atom bomb and a B29 and a couple of beers , Tidbits didn't give a shit , To be clear , when the bombs drop the bullshit stops , After all Enola Gay was not a queer she was a plane her name spelled backwards is alone
I understand what your saying. The night before I filmed this I had to figure it all out when it was pouring & nighttime. The part where the shifter bolts to snapped off while I was trying to put in park at the store, had to replace & had no time to fully go thru it again. But after searching for hours I didn’t get any info on how to fix this. Take it easy & thanks for your feedback Brian. It was my first video & I just wanted to put the knowledge out there, didn’t expect over 35,000 views.
Had to tear down kick panels & all that stuff, shift with the leg of the shift arms way down below that the mechanism attaches to. I know about b.s myself lol. Those were the good days, I wa shorn we’re I still knew a little of what it was like, never got to live it my age now. But I would’ve loved to. GOBBLESS brother
How did you get the shifter to shift into 1 again ?
This is a messed up vidio