I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the time. Can anyone help?
97 f-150 wont start right after body lift
Apr 02, 2007
8 Replies
How about in neutral?
Not in any gear.
a wild guess : you lost the ground from the block to frame/neg of battery.
i think that when the lift got put in it stretched out the wire thing that goes down the shifter to where ever it goes and that is making it so its harder to start it because its stretched out and theres not enough slack in the line. how would i make it so there is?
Just a guess, but it sounds like the neutral safety switch is out of whack. You might want to look there.
Column shifter? Time to readjust the shifter mechanism. The lift has thrown off the geometry of the shifter.
nate
ok that sounds about right but how do you do that? is it underneath where the line connects to the shifter thingy or the dial underneath the where the key goes in around that area?
This is likely on the right track but the problem is not the switch but the linkage between shifter and tranny. When you lifted body it changed linkage geometry and it is no longer aligning trany detents properly with shifter detents and the resut is neutral switch is not being activated. Some "adjusting" of linkage should fix this.
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