Why can't I apply force to my character?

So I want the player to be able to use the controls of a vehicle in VR, meaning I have a player character already and it has to control something else by pulling levers etc. My problem is that pulling a lever should apply a force to the vehicle through blueprints and make it go forward a bit.

The vehicle itself is a character class. I can get the lever to apply force to my first person character, but not the vehicle for some reason. I have simulate physics on and Collision Enabled is set to Collision Enabled (Query and Physics). If I bump the vehicle with my character it does move, but the blueprints commanding it to move through the lever don’t seem to work.

Again, my lever class does can move the First Person Character. It just for some reason cannot move my vehicle. Does anyone know what’s wrong? I can provide screenshots of whatever’s needed.