Thread: How to fix carb

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The pointer itself is probably just run off of a small cable or maybe even just attached to your column shift. It isn't the part that is causing your problem. Have someone go inside the car and move the shifter from park to reverse. You should be inside the engine compartment looking at the shift arm where it connects to the shift rod that runs to the tranny. Watch it as it goes up and down.

This is simply a mechanical connection, and if the car shifter is in park, you want the arm on the tranny to also be all the way in park. Put the car up on GOOD jackstands, and slide under the car. Have the tires blocked so the car won't roll. CAR IS NOT RUNNING DURING THIS PHASE.

Remove the shift rod from the trans or the arm on the column shift, and take your hand and click the trans arm all the way into park (every trans hookup is different, so you will have to see how your shift rod comes out of the arm, usually via a circlip or cotter pin.

What you are doing is making sure the shifter is in park and the trans arm is also in park. Then you can spin the threaded end of the shift rod tighter or looser to make the rod just drop in. If you do that, the shifter is saying you are in park and so is the transmission.

Over time these parts wear a littlle, and you have to compensate for the slop by doing this adjustment procedure.

Don