{"id":1425,"date":"2016-09-05T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2016-09-05T06:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T10:00:48","slug":"couldnt-shift-into-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/05\/couldnt-shift-into-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t Shift Into Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a typical day at work until the manager told me to drive to a nearby store&#8217;s parking lot to help out a customer with her car. She&#8217;d recently purchased it, and suddenly it was unable to go into park. I headed over and quickly confirmed that not only could it not go into park, but wouldn&#8217;t fully move into reverse either. I tried the shift lock override just in case it was the issue, but it wasn&#8217;t. Then I looked under the hood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1432\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2016_09_05_01.jpg\" alt=\"2016_09_05_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The shift lever inside the car is connected with a cable to a lever on the transmission. When I looked at the transmission I quickly saw the problem: a walnut had fallen down in front of the lever, preventing it from moving into the reverse or park positions. I was able to squeeze my hand down in and pulled the walnut out, and the problem was resolved, and I had a very happy customer.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a typical day at work until the manager told me to drive to a nearby store&#8217;s parking lot to help out a customer with her car. She&#8217;d recently purchased it, and suddenly it was unable to go into park. I headed over and quickly confirmed that not only could it not go into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[28,64],"class_list":["post-1425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","category-on-the-road","tag-diagnosis","tag-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}