727 torqueflite with reverse manual valve body

[Bailey Wilmoth]

I have a 1972 Dodge Dart swinger with a fresh built 440 little more than 700hp with a 727 torqueflite transmission with a reverse manual vavle body play on the factory crystal era vavle body just really curious on how it actually shift the transmission internally? If you have any information and if I don’t get back with you on this page open to any info. Phone number removed by staff. You can exchange personal information in a personal message.

 

[RustyRatRod]

uhhh.....what?

 

[AlaskaJeff]

You lost me at the poll question.............

 

[Lefty71]

manually

 

[Bailey Wilmoth]

Don’t worry about the poll I just put something there cause I had to.

 

[silversedan]

you have to have a shifter that lets you shift each gear as needed. you have to start out in first, and shift each gear as you accelerate. then down shift as needed.

 

[33IMP]

If you are talking about how the shift is accomplished inside the trans, i have no clue. Im not a trans guy.
But any, and all shifts will have to be made by the driver. Reverse mvb, just means that first gear will now be found where D used to be, then second, and third (NOT drive!) will be where 1st was
The idea was so all shifts are away from neutral. You can use a stock shifter, but it probably wont work as well as one designed for a rmvb.
I have two cars with rmvb, one with a stock, but modified column shift, one that used to have a turbo action that i changed to a B&M ratchet shifter.

 

[67Dart273]

^^For example if you put the shifter in the original 1st position, that is THIRD and not "drive." The car will start out and stay in 3rd/ high gear until shifter is moved elsewhere.

 

[Ricks70Duster340]

If you are talking about how the shift is accomplished inside the trans, i have no clue. Im not a trans guy.
But any, and all shifts will have to be made by the driver. Reverse mvb, just means that first gear will now be found where D used to be, then second, and third (NOT drive!) will be where 1st was
The idea was so all shifts are away from neutral. You can use a stock shifter, but it probably wont work as well as one designed for a rmvb.
I have two cars with rmvb, one with a stock, but modified column shift, one that used to have a turbo action that i changed to a B&M ratchet shifter.

Almost mandatory to use an aftermarket ratchet type of shifter with a reverse manual valve body. It would be downright ugly to overshift into neutral by mistake during a temporary brain fog episode.

 

[70aarcuda]

With reverse manual valve body you are shifting away from neutral....hence the word reverse

 

[Ricks70Duster340]

With reverse manual valve body you are shifting away from neutral....hence the word reverse

Yeah, after I posted that I saw what you are saying. I had converted my valve body using a B&M kit which maintained the original shift positions (not reverse). That is what I was referring to.

 

[33IMP]

The turbo action shifter i used before i bought the B&M, ended up with a conversion plate to work with a forward pattern powerglide with a brake. It worked great in that application. I was brain dead enough occasionally to go from first to third when used with the 727. Changing it to the glide, and replacing it with a ratchet, worked great in both cars.