Well I figured it was about to get me as I had trouble with it a couple times in the recent past so sure enough last night I jumped in the H2 to head home and it would not shift out of park. I listened for the click when pushing the brake pedal, nothing and the shifter button would not depress so it would not shift out of park.
After calling the wife to come get me (was close to home) I got to thinking about what the solenoid actually did and decided to pop the shift cable off the trans linkage and see if I could manually shift into drive and sure enough I was able to put the truck into drive. My next thought was where does the TCM get the mode info PRNDM1 from, the shifter gates or the trans and would the ECM allow me to drive the truck if the TCM thinks its in park. I started the truck set the E=brake and slid under the truck and put it into drive, jumped in and drove it home with no issues. I haven't put the scanner on and tried to figure out where it gets the mode info but the only thing in the console at the shifter is the cable so I'm fairly confident it gets the info from the trans.
I popped the console cover off and sure enough there were 2 broken wires and 1 hanging on by maybe 2 strands, the broken wires were broken within the exterior insulation sleeve but as soon as I tugged on them they broke in half, the 3rd wire pulled from the crimp area of the connector. The parts houses list a replacement connector with pigtails but none in my area had it so I opted to un-pin mine and repair it.


Neal,