Me and 2 friends were installing a bunch of stuff yesterday...and as me and another were puting on my new style headlamps..my other friend was tinkering with my existing shift knob..b/c we intended on installing a new one next...he unscrewed the existing one...and thought he had to pull on it to expose the overdrive cable to disconnect it...we ended up running out of time...and didn't get to do a lot of the things we wanted..so we simply screwed the shift knob back in and left it for now....later that night i went out to drive my car..and it would not shift..

I then realized my friend must have pulled something out..or did some sort of damage when messing around with it...it is just stuck in park...

Do y'all know what the problem would be?

 

the only advise i can give is that when you put your foot on the brake to shift out of park there is a solinoide that clicks and alows you to shift, if that is not working then there musat be a wire loose somewhere but you can overcome it by pushing the little red button in and that should allow you to shift out of park

good luck

 

It might also be a fuse. I had a Celica 10+ years ago that I blew a fuse in while doing an alarm install or stereo install (don't remember, too old:pat. Check the fuse panel and the fuses under the hood.

 

Although the overdrive wire will run up to the button on the shift knob, you won't want to cut/splice there. Remove the shifter surround panel and you can join it there...lots more room. Don't know what happened...the shift button is spring loaded, I know mines kinda 'exploded' when I pulled it off. Good luck.
butnut

 

Well we took apart the whole console and everything...turned out that there's a little plastic piece that works with the spring...and somehow it got turned around and wasn't allowing the button to function properly...we simply turned it the right way...slipped the knob back over...and waa laa...we're rollin'. Thanks for the tips anyhow tho...sometimes ya just gotta rip things apart and see what ya come up with..

 

oooooooooright!
butnut