I have had this happen to me a couple of times. This one happened to be in a bad situation. I pulled out of the gate at some friends property pulling my lowboy trailer. Its a small country road with a speed limit of 40 (which means travel as fast as you can because there has never been seen a peace officer in these parts.) It was dark and I was going back to shut the gate.
When I got back in, waaalllaaaa!! Wouldnt come out of gear. I remembered last time. Anytime the brake fuse blows the sucker will not come out of park. There I am sticking out in the road, at night. I didnt have a spare fuse, so I unhooked the battery to get it into nuetral and then hooked it back up and started the truck. The trailer has a short somewhere. What genius at Ford came up with that one?

 

blame it on Nasser.

 

FYI.
Turn the key all the way on, they slightly turn it back.

Now you can shift it out of park. Crank it in neutral, then shift it to drive and take off.

By the way, it's not Ford's idea.
Just the Gov't looking out for our intrests.

 

It wont come out of park to let you know that your brake lights are out. The truck does'nt want to get rear-ended!


BTW, if you had factory towing package, none of the triler lights could blow any of the trucks light fuses. Towing package has separate fuses, so that wont happen.