I am looking at a 1991 Camaro with a B&M shifter and the guy told me it can be shifted like a manual trans but it has no clutch how does this work??
2007-06-26 09:33:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
the ratchet shifter allows you to manually shift into each gear but has detents on the shifter to prevent you from over shifting, or missing a gear. U can leave the shifter in D and the trans will shift normally. When you engage the ratchet mechanism, it's basically just like moving the stock shift lever into a desired gear but the addition of the detents allows you to move the shifter to the next gear without skipping over it and going into say third. But, unless the trans is modified in the valve body, it will probably upshift using the governor.
2007-06-26 09:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by bbking48507 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ratchet Shifter
2016-11-12 05:43:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's basically for racing and manually shifting through the gears without having to worry about missing a gear---it has positive stops for each gear as you up shift....or just leave it in drive and let the trans shift automatically. My old 69 Charger R/T had that feature from the factory with the stock shifter.
2007-06-26 09:51:13 · answer #3 · answered by paul h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋