97 f-150 wont start right after body lift

On Apr 2, 8:32 am, samst... RemoveThis @aol.com wrote:
> On 2 Apr 2007 06:24:14 -0700, bjs_bigho... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
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> >On Apr 2, 8:21 am, samst... RemoveThis @aol.com wrote:
> >> On 2 Apr 2007 06:07:52 -0700, bjs_bigho... RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:
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> >> >I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then
> >> >it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
> >> >when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont
> >> >start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
> >> >time. Can anyone help?
>
> >> How about in neutral?
>
> >Not in any gear.
>
> a wild guess : you lost the ground from the block to frame/neg of battery.

i think that when the lift got put in it stretched out the wire thing
that goes down the shifter to where ever it goes and that is making it
so its harder to start it because its stretched out and theres not
enough slack in the line. how would i make it so there is?
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On Apr 2, 9:07 am, bjs_bigho... DeleteThis @hotmail.com wrote:
> I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then
> it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
> when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont
> start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
> time. Can anyone help?

Column shifter? Time to readjust the shifter mechanism. The lift has
thrown off the geometry of the shifter.

nate
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On Apr 2, 9:15 am, "N8N" <njna....DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 9:07 am, bjs_bigho....DeleteThis@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> > I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then
> > it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
> > when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont
> > start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
> > time. Can anyone help?
>
> Column shifter? Time to readjust the shifter mechanism. The lift has
> thrown off the geometry of the shifter.
>
> nate

ok that sounds about right but how do you do that? is it underneath
where the line connects to the shifter thingy or the dial underneath
the where the key goes in around that area?
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> On Apr 2, 8:32 am, samst....TakeThisOut@aol.com wrote:
>> On 2 Apr 2007 06:24:14 -0700, bjs_bigho....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >On Apr 2, 8:21 am, samst....TakeThisOut@aol.com wrote:
>> >> On 2 Apr 2007 06:07:52 -0700, bjs_bigho....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >> >I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since
>> >> >then
>> >> >it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
>> >> >when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and
>> >> >wont
>> >> >start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
>> >> >time. Can anyone help?
>>
>> >> How about in neutral?
>>
>> >Not in any gear.
>>
>> a wild guess : you lost the ground from the block to frame/neg of
>> battery.
>
> i think that when the lift got put in it stretched out the wire thing
> that goes down the shifter to where ever it goes and that is making it
> so its harder to start it because its stretched out and theres not
> enough slack in the line. how would i make it so there is?

Just a guess, but it sounds like the neutral safety switch is out of whack.
You might want to look there.
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On 2 Apr 2007 06:07:52 -0700, bjs_bighouse RemoveThis @hotmail.com wrote:

>I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then
>it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
>when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont
>start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
>time. Can anyone help?
>
How about in neutral?
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On 2 Apr 2007 06:24:14 -0700, bjs_bighouse.DeleteThis@hotmail.com wrote:

>On Apr 2, 8:21 am, samst....DeleteThis@aol.com wrote:
>> On 2 Apr 2007 06:07:52 -0700, bjs_bigho....DeleteThis@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>> >I put a 3 inch body lift in my 97 F-150 a few weeks ago and since then
>> >it will not start right. I have to push the shifter all the way up
>> >when its in park to get it to start, otherwise it just clicks and wont
>> >start. Now it wont even start when i do that it just clicks all the
>> >time. Can anyone help?
>>
>> How about in neutral?
>
>Not in any gear.
>
a wild guess : you lost the ground from the block to frame/neg of battery.
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:58:56 -0400, "Roy" <Roy DeleteThis @home.net> wrote:

>Just a guess, but it sounds like the neutral safety switch is out of whack.
>You might want to look there.


This is likely on the right track but the problem is not the switch
but the linkage between shifter and tranny. When you lifted body it
changed linkage geometry and it is no longer aligning trany detents
properly with shifter detents and the resut is neutral switch is not
being activated. Some "adjusting" of linkage should fix this.
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