PeteyCracks
Active LVC Member
2000 Continental, center console shifter. Cranked it up and put it in reverse, moved about a foot and then locked up. Shifter will move as it should, have to press the brake pedal and the button to move it out of park, and will freely move through the shifter, but it won't engage any gear. Checked the tranny fluid after letting it run for a bit, still had a good cranberry color to it and no burnt smell. Tried to trace the shift linkage cables, seems like one goes thru the firewall, under the battery, and up around into the fan and radiator area. The other disappeared on me somewhere up into the left of the driver's side and i'm assuming, definitely could be wrong, that it goes up to the dash for the display. No clue what the black line with a bracket and thin steel cable connected to a pink plastic hook is. I don't recall smelling anything burn up after it happened, and the tranny hadn't been acting up or slipping. Kinda at a loss here, tranny's got somewheres around 60k miles on it. Any ideas here? Didn't throw a check engine light either.