Reverse shifter
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Reverse shifter
Greetings!! my friends 1969 corvette reverse shifter is not locking. Instead goes right into reverse without unlocking the reverse lever. Can anyone please help us to why this is occuring? ( gears 1-4) are shifting nice, so its not the clutch. Thanks in advance 
Drifting
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: League City TX
If the reverse lockout isnt working its a shifter issue.
Have you or your friend unscrewed the shifter ball and taken a look at whats inside?
If the pin in the center of the shifter handle is missing or broken, then the reverse lockout wouldnt work.
Have you or your friend unscrewed the shifter ball and taken a look at whats inside?
If the pin in the center of the shifter handle is missing or broken, then the reverse lockout wouldnt work.
Race Director
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He got a new spring or the complete assembly below?
http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/corve...1968-1976.html
http://www.ecklerscorvette.com/corve...1968-1976.html
Melting Slicks
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From: Midlothian VA
Is the spring installed correctly?
I goes on top and pushes the lockout rod down.
If the rod doesn't reach bottom it won't prevent the shifter from moving through the reverse lockout gate.
I goes on top and pushes the lockout rod down.
If the rod doesn't reach bottom it won't prevent the shifter from moving through the reverse lockout gate.
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
Scott
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It was the rod, J&D gave it to me to short! Thanks a ton guys, my buddy's mechanic was going to take out the entire shifting system, and you guys saved him a few hundred bucks ( those of you who actually helped me). Who would have known something so simple can cause so much disfunction,
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From: Oxford MA-----You just lost the game!!!!
.......And so, Prince Charming fixed his shifter, and didn't get soaked by the mechanic, and they all lived happily ever after. The end.
Scott
