Column Gear Shift Detent

[squaredeal91]

I think it varies depending on the column application and or generation. My 78 column has the detents.

 

[Grit dog]

That's my recollection, too. The column has Park and Neutral, and then any forward drive gear. All the drive gears are differentiated by the rooster comb in the transmission.

In the assembly plant we would set the column and trans in N and then tighten down the "barrel" on the shift rod. That way any error in the adjustment that would manifest itself at the end of travel was split in half.

K

And for the rest of the crowd, that principle applies to many things.
If you halve the constraints, you halve the potential for error.

 

[Bennyt]

That's my recollection, too. The column has Park and Neutral, and then any forward drive gear. All the drive gears are differentiated by the rooster comb in the transmission.

In the assembly plant we would set the column and trans in N and then tighten down the "barrel" on the shift rod. That way any error in the adjustment that would manifest itself at the end of travel was split in half.

K

Good info. I think I always set in D and tighten it but really can't recall. I'll do it in N going forward

 

[Bennyt]

Both of my trucks have 700r4's and no detent was changed and they work fine. I just swapped the indicators. I had one column rebuilt and 99% sure they said they were the same detents. Only power glides require a different detent IIRC.