Transmission only grabbing reverse and neutral

[Adrian Montes]

So to get started I have a 94 Chevy c1500 automatic transmission it was running decent for a good while when one day as i was pulling in to unload some material I shifted into reverse and the gear didn’t grab I went through the gears and it wouldn’t grab eventually I managed to get it in reverse when I started backing up I heard some rough noises (I was backing up slowly ) I left it in park did what I had to do when I left I shifted into drive and it ran fine all the way home 30mi after that everything was fine for about a month or 2 then suddenly one day it wouldn’t go into Drive I managed to get it drive the following day same thing but when I drove a couple of feet it fell out of drive (just reving) I was able to put it into reverse and managed to reverse back home ever since I could only use reverse and neutral if anyone has any advice maybe it’s happened to someone before do I need to change the gear box or maybe the whole transmission? I checked and it manually goes through each gear but no movement any help would be greatly appreciated 

[richard wysong]

time to rebuild or replace the transmission. Have You checked the fluid?  Do you know which trans you have?    

[Adrian Montes]

Richard,

thanks for the reply but yea the first thing I tried was doing a trans fluid change and filter also I failed to mention when I removed the pan there was a small rod looking metal on the bottom of the pan it was somewhat bent I wish I had a picture of it but I don’t the next thing I did was the speed sender was basically hanging on by a wire so I fixed that but no good 

[richard wysong]

well if you can figure out where that came from you may be able to repair it with out a rebuild. what trans is it?

[Adrian Montes]

Richard, 

 yea That’s what I’m hoping but when i dropped the trans pan the shifter was connected with the rod like it should be I couldn’t see anywhere it would go but maybe I need to dig alittle deeper but it’s a 4L60e