jumped out of gear?

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Nathan W. Collier - 21 Jul 2005 21:46 GMT

i drove up to a jobsite and put my '05 bighorn cummins
http://inlinediesel.com/trucks/3gen/1/index.html into park. i sat there for
a second finishing some paperwork and got out to walk inside leaving the
truck running so that it would be cool inside when i got done. as soon as i
slammed the door shut the truck took off in reverse headed for the highway.
i was finally able to run it down and get in to hit the brake. i cant quite
figure out what happened and since i had sat stopped for several minutes
before exiting i can only conclude that it jumped put of park somehow.
anybody ever had this happen? several times ive had a little trouble
getting it into gear but dismissed it as being tight because its new.

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Tom Lawrence - 21 Jul 2005 22:14 GMT

> anybody ever had this happen? several times ive had a little trouble
> getting it into gear but dismissed it as being tight because its new.

Other people have had this problem. NHTSA was tracking it for a while...
see their site:

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/defect/defectsearch.cfm

Action number PE04039

Also read about it on DTR:

http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50173
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?s=&threadid=50234
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39925
http://www.dieseltruckresource.com/dev/showthread.php?s=&postid=479699

I'd take it back to the dealer, explain what happened, and have them adjust
the shift linkage. If they claim ignorancce of the problem, show them the
NHTSA document.

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Nathan W. Collier - 22 Jul 2005 00:24 GMT

thanks a bunch for that link tom. hopefully there is a fix.

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>> anybody ever had this happen? several times ive had a little trouble
>> getting it into gear but dismissed it as being tight because its new.
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> adjust the shift linkage. If they claim ignorancce of the problem, show
> them the NHTSA document.

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TBone - 22 Jul 2005 08:08 GMT

> > anybody ever had this happen? several times ive had a little trouble
> > getting it into gear but dismissed it as being tight because its new.
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> the shift linkage. If they claim ignorancce of the problem, show them the
> NHTSA document.

I would also suggest using the emergancy brake next time!

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