Rooster Comb..

How can you tell if you're "rooster comb" slipped?

 

Trans won't shift, or won't shift properly (with the shifter).

 

it shift but doesnt go into gear. i took out the valve body but i have no idea how to tell if the rooster comb slipped off whatever its suppose to be on..

 

OK I've been a tech for 20 years now and have no idea what the hell a rooster comb is. What gives guys? Detent??

 

Darren; it is the manual shift lever inside the trans. It has the detents in it and looks like a rooster comb. If the spring on the valve body is not lined up or in place, or the manual lever is loose or out of place, then the trans will have shift problems, or no shift at all. Anywho, that is what a "rooster comb" is.

 

This is a new one on me too. Kinda like hog heads and pumpkins I guess

 

if you removed the valve body, you removed the spring plate with the roller on it that rolls on the...rooster comb..

 

...and...Boomarangs

......

 

so how do i tell?

 

In my experience if you hold in the column shifter out of it's detentes or the floor shifter button in and you can move the shifter to all of it's positions without feeling any detentes or positions then the rooster comb is out of position.
That make any since?
clint

 

I can feel the rooster comb clicking through the roler. but the transmission doesnt catch and it just stays in park??

 

It is probably not engaged in the valve spool that controls the shifts.
You will need to pull the pan to see if the manual valve is moving as the linkage is moved.
If not then you will have to drop the valve body to get the valve and the stud on the "Rooster Comb" lined up properly.

 

Thanks paul