parking roll and hard shift?

sleeperjeeper · Jun 9, 2008

My jeep has always rolled a little when putting it in park and shifted a little hard occasionally, but it seems to be getting worse since I installed my detroit locker. I'm not sure what the normal cause for this is, or if having a locker affects it. I'm sure people have had this problem before. Any ideas on what could be causing it and/or ways to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

northwestxj · Jun 9, 2008

I'm curious about this as well...my Jeep does the exact same thing and I have a rear detroit too. Engages pretty hard from reverse to drive as well but people I've talked to said its normal...

cal · Jun 9, 2008

Thats normal for a detroit (or any auto locker).

There is about a quarter turn of the driveshaft "play" between "locked" forward and "locked" reverse. its not harming anything, and you'll get used to it.

UNCC_99XJ · Jun 9, 2008

Try doing this.....when you park, shift into neutral, set the ebrake, take take your foot off the regular brake (you should feel it roll just a little bit, then the e-brake will catch it and stop), then shift into park.

There's a pin in the transmission (called the park pin I believe?) and it sounds like your transmission is catching on that, like it should be.

I've always done the above method when I park and it seems to work fine....keeps added pressure off the transmission from trying to hold the vehicle.

cal · Jun 9, 2008

UNCC_99XJ said:
Try doing this.....when you park, shift into neutral, set the ebrake, take take your foot off the regular brake (you should feel it roll just a little bit, then the e-brake will catch it and stop), then shift into park.

There's a pin in the transmission (called the park pin I believe?) and it sounds like your transmission is catching on that, like it should be.

I've always done the above method when I park and it seems to work fine....keeps added pressure off the transmission from trying to hold the vehicle.

I think you're missing the driveline play that is added by a detroit locker. It literally adds one quarter of a turn of the driveshaft play into the system. With my detroit, I could roll my rig back and forth about a foot while it was in park.

UNCC_99XJ · Jun 10, 2008

cal said:
I think you're missing the driveline play that is added by a detroit locker. It literally adds one quarter of a turn of the driveshaft play into the system. With my detroit, I could roll my rig back and forth about a foot while it was in park.

Ahhhh I see. Didn't know that about Detroits...that and I was on my way out the door typing that. My bad!

northwestxj · Jun 10, 2008

cal said:
I think you're missing the driveline play that is added by a detroit locker. It literally adds one quarter of a turn of the driveshaft play into the system. With my detroit, I could roll my rig back and forth about a foot while it was in park.

x2...I can do the same thing...

markw · Jun 10, 2008

Same here, D44 with detroit.

parking roll and hard shift?

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