More Help Please Range Selection Lever

Did you get anything stuck; in that area such as small rocks that might be gumming up the shift lever ?

G'day Lloyd

A silly question - have you tried reversing ten or fifteen metres, then putting the transmission in neutral, and then trying to move the transfer lever from High/High to High/Locked (and then into LL if you wish)?

I know you should be able to go from HH to HL on the move, but I had a similar problem a couple of years ago that was fixed by the reversing routine.

George

Is it auto? don't they need to be in park/nuetral?

Threaten to trade it for a Nissan and it will correct itself quick smart as no Toyota wants to be superseded by a smelly Nissan.

Cheers Kev

bait set :))

Hi Lloyd,
This sometimes happens on the 90 series Prados. I have had it happen to mine years ago when we were in the Flinders Ranges.

The "Jamming" is caused by the selector lever coming out of the slot in the mechanism that slides the gears from HH to HL etc. It is something to do with the tolerances in the transfer case when it is hot after a long drive in HL or LL.

It actually happens when you moved the transfer case lever from LL or HL back to HH.

If you are reasonably confident you can fix it yourself. The following instructions are from the Prado Yahoo group found at,

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/90series

The instructions are for an Auto, but they equally apply to a manual.

To get to the problem you need to :
> 1. Remove the selector - and this means removing pretty much all of
> the console - with auto anyway.
> 2. Then disconnect the gearbox selector arm (auto) under the car
> 3. This will allow you to remove the plate which covers the gearbox
> opening in the floor.
> 4. With this off you can remove the selector lever by slipping the
> circlip off the top and lifting the selector lever out of the case.
>
> Up to this point, the Gregories manual is not too bad if you have
> one.
>
> Now that you have everything apart, you may be able to see the
> problem (if it's the same problem I had). Looking down inside the
> hole in the top (about 25mm dia) there are 2 selectors inside the
> case with yokes on them where the bottom of the selector arm
locates
> They slide fwd and back as you select H-L,etc. Some how - and I'm
> not sure how - they had moved into a position such that the RHS one
> which locks the transfer case was in the original "unlocked"
> position (fwd) but the bottom of the seclector arm had slotted into
> the yoke on the LHS which selects H-L.
>
> To correct things, you should be able to the slide the yokes fwd
and
> back with something like a screw driver working through the hole in
> the top. When they are aligned together you can easily reassemble
> things.
>
> One thing to be aware of is that as you finally refit the selector
> lever, make sure that the funny shaped spring inside the top of the
> transfer case is to the left of the bottom of the selector arm as
> you slide it back into the transfer case. This will mean that the
> knob on top of the selector will tend to spring to the left when
> everything is reassembled.
>
> After that just bolt everyhting back together that you took off.



I hope the above helps,

Cheers,
Mal58

Hey Lloyd - how are you getting on?

George