stuck in a ditch............

1998 FORD RANGER
172,000 MILES
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DELANDFORD
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the other night my step son took my ranger w/o permission and landed my ranger in a ditch. from what he told me was that he was stuck in the ditch and was changing gears from D to R with out hitting the brakes. i had to recover the truck out of said ditch. it starts no OD light blinking i can move shift lever through all gear but it will not go into gear. my question is, is there some sort of cable/switch/piece that brakes away so the transmition does not get dammaged?


1998 Ford ranger
3.0
2 WD
Dec 22, 2011 at 8:23 PM
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FIXITMR
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you mean does ford have a better idea? not on purpose in this case. you will just have to look at shift arm on trans to see if it's functioning.
Dec 22, 2011 at 8:38 PM
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