Geezer stories , I juust love 'em ! .
Oh no _WAIT_ ! that means _I'M_ now a Geezer too =8-^ .
Oh well , can't fight time I guess .
Keep 'em coming folks ! .
-Nate
Mark wrote:
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> Yeah, the gear selection was not the "PRNDSL" that's been Federally mandated since the mid-'60's: It was "NDSLR", the reasoning, so the story goes, was to allow quick access between Low and Reverse to rock a stuck car out of snow/ice.
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> There actually was a parking pawl that would lock the output shaft when the engine was shut off in "R". That, and the rear band needed pressure to RELEASE (just the opposite of every other band in all other transmissions) meant that transmission was pretty much locked solid once the engine was off.
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> (And that rear band is probably what got toasted on Brian's Oldsmobile, among other things....)
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> Mark
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