Gee, even if they went ahead & dropped the skid it should still have not taken more than 15 minutes or so; that's what it took me to zip-tie it back on without a hoist, on my back in the mud!

 

it has happened to me twice. after the first time i shift real easy and it still happened again. i think the heat eats them up. i keep a hand full of the POS clips in my glove box.
60 cent part. the look on a fellow jeepers face when you hand him the part he needs in the middle of no where. priceless

 

I had this exact problem this weekend. On Sunday I was on my way home from a JK Meet and Greet. I decided to go the back way to my house around the pond. I put it down to 4H and then went to 4L on a level area and then I had nothing. I pushed the gas and it just rev'd but no go. The Jeep is still new to me, so I didn't even know anything about the linkage. Man was I freaking out though. I could put the Jeep in Park and still push it around. Later, I figured out I was stuck in neutral. After sweating in the heat for about half an hour trying everything I could think of...I think I just got lucky one time while moving the lever. It must have caught and put me back in 4H. I drove it back around to the house and did some research. Sure enough! Crawled under and I had an empty hoop at the end of a black cable. I'm still under warranty, but dreading dealing with any of the dealerships around here. Especially for something this simple. I'll probably just fix it myself and buy a few spares.

Jim