Safety concern

[Spanky]

I'm running a TH 350 in my bucket with a Mr Gasket shifter from Auto Zone. It has no provision for a reverse lockout. I accidentally nudged the shift lever into R as I was leaving my driveway and it 'bout broke my neck! In heavier cars shifting to Reverse while driving will likely just trash the transmission, but in our little T-buckets it results in a neck snapping, tire screeching full stop, and at any speed a likely spin out or roll-over crash.

 

[409T]

I know of one accident that was caused by doing this. Both the passenger and driver were ejected, one fatally. I probably don't get as excited about safety as some, after all we are going fast protected by only a bunch of fiberglass or 1920's sheet metal, but IMO this situation is not one to be overlooked.

 

[thebearded1]

I''m running the Genie shifter on my 904 auto and it has worked well on the street and tracks. You have to push it to the side to go from park to reverse then if I remember there are detents in-between reverse, neutral and drive but maybe those are just the detents in my transmission selector. I haven't had any issues bumping it into the wrong selection.