Sounds like a linkage. My 700r4 did that till I put a cable shifter on.
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89 Jimmy 6.0/4l80e/MAGNUM 205/d60/14bolt
Sounds like a linkage. My 700r4 did that till I put a cable shifter on.
I think that’s what it was. Messed with it yesterday and got it adjusted better. Trans guy said it sounds like the Park pawl not engaging fully, which could’ve been due to the linkage.
How are your motor mounts? Maybe you already covered this and I missed it but with the linkage going from the column to the engine if the motor mounts are old it can cause issues. I've had it manually downshift before while wheeling because my motor mounts were shot and the engine would move but the column linkage wouldn't.
Mine was due to the bushing in the frame being bad/ gone. Art car FTW.
That works too, but when you need the center seat in the bench then new poly motor mount inserts work just fine for 14 years now. 
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Brand new poly bushings in a TNA crossmember. I did the linkage this way to avoid the frame flex from causing those same type of problems. I’m hoping the adjustment took care of it. Haven’t been able to test it out just yet
Brand new poly bushings in a TNA crossmember. I did the linkage this way to avoid the frame flex from causing those same type of problems. I’m hoping the adjustment took care of it. Haven’t been able to test it out just yet
Ok, so apparently the trans has to be in park in order to shift the magnum. I’m not sure what happens but if it’s in neutral the trans won’t engage any gear and when you shift park it grinds the park pawl. BUT, as long as it’s in park when you shift the magnum then everything works fine. Which is kind of a pain cause to shift the 205 it has to be in neutral. Oh well, one price to pay for awesomeness.
Awesome!
The shifting issue sounds like a trans linkage adjustment.
Yeah, I’ll call ORD tomorrow and see if I need to adjust the cables, but the adjustment to the trans linkage felt good.
Well the 205 is fine with neutral or park. Should be the same for the magnum
I called ORD and the guy that rebuilt the trans about this and neither really had an answer.
When the trans is in neutral, the magnum kind of feels like it doesn’t engage all the way into low, but when you try to shift back it grinds in the TC. But, in park you can shift the magnum freely and it engages fine.
The 205 shift easily in neutral but it’s much harder to shift when it’s in Park.
The things that baffles me is that when I try the trans in Neutral and the magnum is in low then the trans won’t engage any other gear. It’s just dead in the water. It will go into park but it grinds the park pawl when you do this. At this point you have to shut it off and put it in park and and start back up then everything works.
Mind you, this is a 2wd 4l80e so all the VSS and stuff is in the trans, so it basically doesn’t even know there is a TC behind it.
Normally if I have the transfer case in neutral and I try to put it in park it will do that and I think it is because there is no way to stop the transmission from turning, when the tcase is engaged you press on the brakes and it stops the transmission and it can smoothly go in park.
The other issues have to be alignment issues.
It will take some fine tuning but I think they will get better.
Did you try shifting the magnum while in neutral and holding the brakes?
I want to say yes, but I’m not 100%
I have a magnum and 205 also. Difference with mine is I have a manual trans. Most gears need to be turning to shift/engage. But not turning to fast or it will grind. Sometimes I can shift my 205 sitting still, sometimes not. It depends where the gears are sitting. My magnum same thing. What I found works best is to to shift when I’m barely rolling. And like Iceman said, with the auto, if you have a neutral condition after the trans, you have to shut it off to put it back in park. Luckily I can just push in the clutch and give it a sec to spool down.
When I had my auto and 208, I would be barely rolling and slip the trans in neutral and shift the tcase quickly. Then back into gear. Works really well once you get the feel for it.
When I had my auto and 208, I would be barely rolling and slip the trans in neutral and shift the tcase quickly. Then back into gear. Works really well once you get the feel for it.
I’ll have to play around with that. It may just need some breaking in I guess.
Well it goes down the road ok. Leaking like crazy though. 
Kind of expected this
Kind of expected this
Well it goes down the road ok. Leaking like crazy though.
My old rig leaked like crazy. I spent the extra time cleaning gaskets and making sure mating surfaces were prepped and dry before I assembled. Sometimes taking your time pays off.
Yeah I thought I did that pretty well but apparently not. I think most of it was coming out of vent lines.
How much fluid did you put in the magnum? I had fluid coming out of its vent. Same for the transmission, which my trans guy says is overfilled, but all the literature I found on fluid capacity said a 4l80e takes 14 quarts. I know, alot. But i also know it doesn’t have that much in there.
