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- From: frank@marvin.contex.com (Frank Perdicaro)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: 55 Chevy - No reverse
- Message-ID: <3250@contex.contex.com>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 13:58:48 GMT
- References: <4220.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> <1993Jan4.110719.9701@panix.com>
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- Organization: Xyvision Design Systems
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- In article <1993Jan4.110719.9701@panix.com> dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- >In <4220.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- >>-> I can put the transmission INTO reverse, but it just doesn't move
- >>-> (engage?) It as though it's still in neutral. The car runs fine in
- >> Most likely, your shift rod fell off, or the lever on the side of the
- >>trans fell off. Put it back on.
- >
- >Your car probably has the original ranking order for an automatic
- >transmission, namely: P-N-R-D-H-L
- > rather than todays: P-R-N-D-H-L
- >now for today's question: three no-prizes to the first person who can tell
- >me when the switch was made to PRNDL...
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- Must have been in the late 50s. My wife's step father has a good
- story about exploding parts of his father's Caddilac when he was young,
- due to the change.
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