ccb9955

Ive been having trouble with my truck being difficult getting it to shift out of park. Feels like the shift cable or shifter will break if i pull on it much harder. once its in gear it runs fine.
2007 1ton dually full built ATS 48re W/ Copilot and Smarty TNT.
I ran the tuck with the shift limiter turned off a couple of times and its been this way ever since.

1-2-3

There a fix that needs to be done with the valve body in the trans for it. i don't know the details but know of someone who tried everything and a trans shop changed his VB to fix it.

ccb9955

Thanks for the help. I figured it might be somthing minor in the vb. wasnt sure if there may be a rebuild kit or just straight replace it.
i've tryed everything.

1-2-3

I believe you can go either way. The rebuild kit is less $$$ but can be tricky to install. Most folks don't rebuild their own vb's.

easydoesit

Check out this link. I am having the same problem, gone so far as to remove the pan and discover the hangup is somewhere in the tranny rather than the cable or BTSI. I did a search for repair/tear down and this guy gives detailed info on tear down and repair if you are so inclined. The tranny is older and a 42RE, but I think in general it will be similar.

http://www.handymanlyness.com/archiv...93_Dakota.html

NE frmhnd

If you park where the truck won't roll does it come out of park easier? When you are on a slope try gassing it just a little to take the slop out of the driveline then going straight into park. Especially facing downhill. My truck wants to stick in park sometimes and we've had several that would try to stick if you let it roll against the slop in the drivetrain.

CamperAndy

It is frustrating for sure. If you want to save some aggravation until you get it fixed, do the following.

When parking place the trans in neutral and set the park brake. Release the foot brake and let the park brake take up the load of the truck. Then place the trans in park. Take it out of park before releasing the park brake.

Kent Kendall

I had the same problem with my 2006 Dodge Ram 3500 48 RE trans. Hard to get out of park. I watched a few youtube videos on this transmission and decided the worse that could happen is I would have to get a tranny shop to do the work. So I removed the pan and then the valve body. After looking the valve body over I saw the spring and steel ball in this part. The ball is missing in this photo. These photo's are not of the 48 re transmission, but similar enough that you will have no problem recognizing the areas needing attention.

In this second photo, you can see the part that has a Z imprinted. This is the part that pushes against the ball with a spring behind it. Each indented segment is what you feel in the shifter lever as: Park-Reverse-Neutral, etc.
In my tranny I had to grind the hole in the housing so the ball would not bind. I put a slightly weaker spring in as well. I worked on this until the assembly could be moved by hand easily without binding. I had never worked on an automatic transmission before this, but again figured the worse thing that could happen is I would have to pay a professional. Try to keep metal and grindings from getting into the valve body and make sure to blow out holes and openings with some parts cleaner spray. I did this the summer of 2013 and still going strong as of this March 2014. I haul campers all over the country to RV dealerships and this transmission has over 400 K on it.

You can see in this third photo, how the assembly should look with the ball in place. The problem I found in my transmission was that the ball had worn the casing, that houses around it, so much that it would bind and not move back against the spring pressure.

I'll give credit to forum poster "Easydoesit" for this link where I got my photo's.
http://www.handymanlyness.com/archiv...93_Dakota.html

Dynocon

I had the same issue, mechanic took the rooster comb off it was wore binding at the little ball, smoothed it with a dremel, once he was done you could easily move, put back together and it is fine.

patdaly

Long term solution is to install the bullet.