Well, I got the beast home tonight. By reaching up to the back of the shift lever assembly, which was broken away from the front part of the shift selector assembly, I was able to put the van into drive, pilot it back home, back it into it's parking space, and then put it in park. It wasn't elegant,...

Yes Brent, you've described it pretty well. My problem isn't figuring out how to fix it, but rather how to get TO the parts to replace them and fix it. Whoever made the comment about vans having 10 pounds of mechanism in a 5 pound sack was dead on. I'm attaching th diagram from the factory manual. M...

Thanks for your input, Cap'n. I appreciate that someone is here who is following along. Some days the crickets seem to get pretty loud. Right now I'm not interested in what I should have done. That's a waste of time right now, and I need to solve the problem, not complain about it. Finding blame is ...

UPDATE - A visit to the local salvage yard today procured a steering column for donor parts. Getting the housing off was a problem there as well. I'm hoping I can just remove the lower dash panel and install the parts from below. But that miserable lower shroud is still a problem.

My 2000 Astro had a lot of hard use before I got it. Most of what I've done to it is pretty straightforward stuff to bring it back to life, but I've run into a problem I need ideas on. It's been getting more difficult to get from Park or Reverse into Drive, but it would jump to 2nd and then up to Dr...