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Shift lever assembly? Being lazy

Discussion in 'Generation 1 Prius Discussion' started by ronlewis, Jul 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM.

  1. ronlewis

    ronlewis Active Member

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    WTH, it's too hot outside to go see for myself, but if I already lured you into looking at this, maybe you'll give me a head start.

    Yesterday, something in my shift lever function broke. It became real easy to move and it still rolls when you put it in park. It drives fine, and all the transmission gears work as indicated. I repaired one before where a small C-clip came off that connects the shift lever to the transmission control cable, allowing it to fall off. But, this one is still shifting, except for Park.

    Does that transmission control cable not operate the Park function as well? Is there something else that the lever operates for Park? It doesn't really say much in the service manual.
     
    #1 ronlewis, Jul 4, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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    #2 Trombone, Jul 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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  3. ChapmanF

    ChapmanF Senior Member

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    The only thing a gen 1 shift lever does mechanically is park and unpark. Everything else it does in the way of selecting 'gears' it does electrically, as a sort of game-controller input to the HV ECU.

    So if the mechanical cable comes off, all of the 'gear'-selecting still works, just not the parking/unparking.

    This is a problem that has had reports on PriusChat going pretty far back. At least one thread showed a sort of inventive repair for reattaching the cable (I don't remember the details).
     
    #3 ChapmanF, Jul 5, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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