1993 Accord LX auto. Cleaned and greased where the shifter pin slides under the console. Cleaned the electronic mechanism inside console on driver side of shifter. Brake solenoid is working. All brake lights are working. Sticking the key in the console to push the lock arm down makes no difference. What else could I try? Takes two hands to get it out of park and the shifter flies all the way down to gear 2. Putting back into park requires excessive force towards dash.

 

Get under the car and check the condition of the shift cable, it's pretty obvious, big black cable that disappears into the bottom of the trans bellhousing. It should have a fairly smooth routing, if it is kinked up it will jam.
If the sheathing has been damaged the cable may be jamming inside the housing. The cable is probably the lowest hanging part on the car.
Verify your main ground cable from teh battery and the bonding jumper over by the timing cover are intact. If not then power may try to complete the circuit via the shifter cable. This will damage the cable housing.

 

If the engagement of the "Parking Pawl" (An arm that engages in a gear when "Park" is selected) is hydraulic, as in fluid activated, then you may have a fluid pressure problem or more specifically a fluid pressure governing problem that is allowing excessive pressure to act on the parking pawl. If it is purely mechanical (actuated by the shift cable only) then I would do as "MAD MIKE" said and inspect the cable. It could also be a bent parking pawl component such as the arm that engages the gear. Another thought that came to mind is cable adjustment, it is an adjustable cable. I'm not super familiar with the design of the automatic transmission on the '93 Accord's.

 

I did this to my Son's 97 Accord EX Sedan. We had the shifter **** off, and this began afterward. There is an angled piece that is in there somewhere that is out of alignment (I can't remember the exact part or location). I rotated his 180 degrees, put it all back together and it worked like a champ. Hope this helps.

 

Try taking the **** off and moving the shifter out of park by manually operating the metal, angle cut, shift lock rod (the one the shifter button normally operates), try doing this with the rod rotated in different positions.

 

Absolutely. That piece in the circle was in 180 out and the button wouldn't release the shifter pawl

 

My shift rod is not angled like that. It instead has like a plastic roller piece on top rather than angled metal. The shift cable under the car appears to be in good condition. Will tranny fluid be lost while changing the cable with a new one?