Comment from: Mark Gomez
Nice report. Glad you were able to get the truck fixed at a low cost. How often does that happen?
What was the name of the little lake?
Also, did you throw a few casts at salmon below the dam?
The best laid plans...
By djkimmel on Oct 11, 2008 | In News, Fish Stories
Simple idea in principal, but no such luck. I could not get my truck out of park. The automatic shifter would not move. What the ...? I thought possibly I had too much weight on the gears to come out of park? So I put the boat back ont the trailer (I had it just deep enough to crank it on) and than I gave the truck a push with the big motor to see if that would take pressure off gears enough to move the shift arm.
No luck. I'm stuck. Can't move. Blocking a tiny ramp in the backwoods. I check my owner's manual for clues. I notice the ABS light is flashing. There's a fuse for that, but the one I looked at was okay.
Besides, how could a fuse keep my gears from shifting, right? I look at the linkage under the dash. Nothing seem amiss. I finally give up and call for help. I find Tim from Cheboygan Towing (231-627-5227) and he turns out to be a very good choice. He tries to get weight off my gears too with a chain, but I still can't shift.
So he climbs underneath while I have the parking brake and foot pedal depressed. He manually shifts me into drive (talk about trust!! - he's laying right behind my front tire). I'm then able to drive up the ramp into the parking area (of course, shortly before he gets there, two trailers show up wanting to launch). At least now I'm out of their way.
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Comment from: djkimmel
First time I’ve ever had a fuse blow and keep my truck from shifting. I didn’t even know a simple fuse could do that? Feel kind of stupid, but I guess I don’t know everything…
I could have been out on that lake all afternoon after just a couple minutes if I had known. I know now! Long Lake was the lake. Kind of pretty. Small and narrow. The ramp was kind of flat - probably backing in so far is what blew the fuse. But it was deep enough to launch my big Ranger Boat.
If I’d of had 2 more days up there, I would have spent Monday in a smackdown with all those smallies that were coming in to the shallows. Then maybe half a day below the dam for some multi-species.
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