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F 350 and the garage wall

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YELLOW DOG

03-21-2006 16:58:45




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Fellow across the road came home from work. Pulled his big ford 4 door,dually,4 wheeler up to the garage.Opened the door. Put truck in park, parking brake on. Left engine running to cool turbo while he walked down to the mail box. House some what higher than the road. Heard a noise, looked up. Truck had gone up that short grade and into and thru the wall. broke a few studs and a water pipe in the laundry room on the other side. What's up with that. Out of park thru reverse, thru neutral into drive? He told me it did it once before but into reverse and ended up in my yard.That I could understand a little. And he works for Ford management.

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JDknut

03-22-2006 09:04:55




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Fords have had a history of that. Seems I heard one time that there were recalls for Ford light trucks of the late 70's, early 80's (not sure of the exact time frame) for that very same condition, with C-6 automatics, they'd go ahead while in park.



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yellowdog

03-22-2006 06:31:44




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I pretty much agree with everything said. This guy's appears straight, loves that truck, very little drinking. Money not an issue and house and truck were both in good shape. He was home early that day too. If there was insurance involved he won't have harmed that truck in the deal. I had a tough time buying into the story too. But we have a neighbor carpenter who repaired it over the week-end. Oh well it makes good reading and he doesn't even have a tractor.

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LumbrJakMan

03-22-2006 05:53:11




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I dont Buy it !! How come no one has mentioned the fact that Until you apply pressure on the brake pedal the Transmission will NOT shift to any gear. If I set my parking brake in my 2004 F-350 Power Stroke it will not move until I release it. I think this guy is getting his story straight for the Insurance company.



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IHFanII

03-22-2006 04:53:18




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Two key words Ford & manegement.



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BBx

03-22-2006 04:44:34




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I MIGHT could accept it jumping into reverse. Jumping into drive would be a stretch. And idling thru the wall uphill with parking brake on is just a bit too much.



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Chances R

03-22-2006 04:28:08




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I thought i read that the fords used a electronic shifter in other words its not a solid mechanical shifter. This would explain how one could jump all the way into drive. I bet the parking break was not on , and if it was it is out of adjustment. Charlie



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MarkB_MI

03-22-2006 03:27:03




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I'm sure that's the story he'll tell his insurance company. They may actually believe him.

Maybe he'll learn to turn off his engine and take out the keys before he gets out. But I doubt it.



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MSM

03-22-2006 01:07:44




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Sounds like to me he forgot to put it in park.Idling in gear on a slight uphill grade held it in place,until the computer got a low coolant temperature signal and picked the idle up 2-300 rpm and away she went.



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John S-B

03-21-2006 20:31:43




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Seems to me that the parking brake should have been enough to keep it from moving at idle, and uphill at that.



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john_bud

03-21-2006 19:55:47




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Hmmm, let me think. A shifter that on its own, goes past 2-3 detents from Park, past Reverse, past Neutral, into Drive, is that more or less likely that the guy forgot to put it into Park in the first place? Let's get real!

jb



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David A. Hodson

03-21-2006 19:06:02




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Whenn I work at an International truck dealership there was an old boy started working there after being fired from the local Kenworth dealer. The reason he was fired was he went out to get a truck with an 855 cummins and an allison auto well he nose it up to the door set the air brakes touched the neutral button (electronic shifter) but didn't wait to make sure it went into nuetral and about the time he got to the door to open it here came the truck through the door, a couple of tool boxes into another truck through another door then almost into a row of brand new trucks. Talk about excitment wow. David

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Kevin Bismark

03-21-2006 18:27:49




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
You guy"s remember years ago when ford had that problem with cars and trucks going into gear, their way to fix the problem was to send everyone who owned one of the cars a sticker that I think said something about putting the parking brake on and not leaving it running, been years so I don"t remember exactly what it said, I was the one who stuck it on the dash when it came, still think that was dumb. There was a lady in Braham Minnesota that parked her car by the post office and took the ice scraper and jammed it down on the gas to keep the idle up in the winter to warm up, and lets just say, man did that thing take off.. I guess an auto trans is nice, but I try to stay away from them in the pulling rigs anyway, maybe I am lucky I have the 6 speed in my 350 dually..
Kevin

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Lloyd Llama

03-21-2006 18:11:44




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
There"ve been a number of reports of Ford products doing that. Don"t remember as a 350 was the culpript, but several sedans have.



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Tom in Central Pa.

03-21-2006 17:54:34




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
I was told to work on an old Thunderbird, I went out back, it was dead. Used jumper cables, and got it going. It was running rough, I put the parking brake on, and went to put away the booster. Then I heard the CRASH. I figure the rough running shook the gear shift, which moved down, by gravity, into drive, and automatically released the parking brake, and drove itself into the side of the garage.

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Jonfarmer

03-21-2006 17:45:40




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Wow, if it was mine, and Ford couldn't figgure it out, that truck would be gone!!!. Scary thing for that to happen. Must be a faulty shift lever that allows the vibration of the diesel to slip into gear, theres supposed to be positions that you can feel when you shift it, must be a bad spring in there or something so those stops are not there. I drive standards, so I'm all set, until the hydrolic clutch reservoir goes dry, which I have had happen, then the clutch doesn't disengage.

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Allan In NE

03-21-2006 17:04:31




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 Re: F 350 and the garage wall in reply to YELLOW DOG, 03-21-2006 16:58:45  
Sounds like the old boy likes to stop in fer happy hour.

Allan



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