cody91mustanglx

my b&m pro ratchet shifter was finally installed yeterday by a racing performance center, and my car is an AOD 91 lx, anyways after goin through the gears i went to shift into overdrive it didnt "lock out" and it went into reverse at 55 mph which spun me into a corn field"which was pretty fun", but my question is ,was this shifter not installed right? or does this shifter not have a lock out feature, im sure it would have to cause what if i was at the track , could of been really dangerous[&:]

capri debris

I have a B&M Hammer shifter and it has a lock out so you don't go into reverse. On mine, you just bump itfrom 1 to D to OD and it will bump to N, but then it will stop until you lift the flat lever on the shifter and then you can go into reverse. You said you have the B&M Pro... I don't know if they're different models or if you have the same thing I do. Either way, I'd think it would have a stop... and I can't see how installing it wrong could remove the stop feature. Maybe it'sdefective or you were holding the flat lever up when you were shifting.

PRO50SC

As far as I know all shifters have a lock out for reverse. It's a safety feature. My guess was operator error. I think you shoulda taken a lil time to get to know it's function before hammering it. JMO though.

stang8689

Mine has lock out too, maybe wasn't installed right

bighungrymatt

man thats crazy... did it ruin your tranny?

cody91mustanglx

in luck we did not flip a million times and the car was ok, the tranny is still acting fine but it could of been a huge mess , the lock out feature is not working, to get it into overdriove u have to lift up on the lever, which to me is a death trap

bighungrymatt

well thats good you are ok! and so is the tranny

cody91mustanglx

i know the shifter came with a installation kit for the AOD 4 SPEEDS,that could of been installed wrong

rust_stang

That could have been bad! glad your ok, but after I installed my shifter I went throughthegears while the car wasn't running first to see if it was working right.

Hollister Hoodlum

wow.

i'd be taking it back to the place that installed and and be tearing somebody a new as*hole.