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Originally Posted by KTL
The detents don't really "lock" the selection of the gears. They just provide a spring pressure on the metal pills to hold the pill against the notch/relief in the shift rods.
It keeps the rods from moving by themselves when a gear isn't selected on that rod.
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Kevin, just to be clear about their purpose, these detents do
lock an adjacent shift rod whenever 3rd, 4th, 5th or Reverse gears are selected.
The detents do not merely keep the rods from moving by themselves.
In the illustration below, the 5th/Reverse shift rod (11) has been
locked by the long detent (9), pin (6) and short detent (4), due to the 3rd/4th shift rod (3) being engaged.
This is done so that two adjacent shift rods, in this case the 3rd/4th and 5th/Reverse rods, cannot be moved into gear simultaneously.
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Originally Posted by KTL
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