How an automatic shifter works

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08/04/2017 at 08:38 • Filed to: None

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Very educational


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Kinja'd!!! Urambo Tauro > Nibby
08/04/2017 at 10:01

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Neat, but not all automatic shifters are the same. (I guess the video should have specified up from that it was from a Corolla.) Anyway, my Thunderbird, for example, definitely didn’t have any gear position detents in the shifter handle assembly, because those detents were inside the transmission. Without the transmission hooked up, the handle could slide freely. I never dug into the handle assembly any further than that, so I don’t know what else is different...


Kinja'd!!! Nibby > Urambo Tauro
08/04/2017 at 10:15

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And a lot of newer ones are electronic


Kinja'd!!! Urambo Tauro > Nibby
08/04/2017 at 10:26

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That figures. I only ever really work on older cars, but with paddle shifters & etc. nowadays, yeah come to think of it, some of them would have to be shift-by-wire, wouldn’t they? Makes sense.

Oh wait, I forgot about the whole Chrysler shifter fiasco! Yeah, that one doesn’t have detents at all, from what I read. Yuck.