<VV> Park & linkage

[Chris & Bill Strickland]

>Enough already!  Either get somebody who actually knows ...
>

Wish that was me, but it isn't -- I'd just like to know where all this 
gibberish about linkage comes from -- most GM trannies with Park use 
just one more position on the shift selector, i.e., one more position 
inside the transmission -- the extra link to the parking pawl is inside 
the tranny.  The pawl is spring loaded and it takes no more force to 
select Park than it does to select Drive, just enough travel for one 
more detent.

Yes, some folks did things a bit differently, but here we are discussing 
GM, are we not? (to go off topic, 'Now' would probably be a good time to 
try to stock up on any new GM parts you might want to be using in the 
future, like a new 'Vette.)

And, as far as I know the issues with 'no park' were ones of reduced 
size of the trannie -- there simply wasn't room without making the 
transmission considerably larger than the space that GM decided it had 
to fit in to fit into.  It would require this internal linkage, the 
"Paul" mechanism, and the output shaft locking ring -- let's see, on a 
Vair Glide, where are we going to put that locking ring? -- hmmm ....    
Generally you find them on the tail shaft near the speedometer gear.

Bill Strickland