When a gear lever suddenly feels stiff or refuses to move out of park, it is more than an annoyance, it is a warning that something in the driveline or its controls is not working as designed. I look ...

The automatic transmission in a typical car or truck handles multiple driving modes, like D for Drive, R for Reverse, or N for Neutral. The system also includes a parking mechanism, often marked P, ...

More than 116,000 Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks are being recalled for a problem with the right-hand gear shifter stalk. The right-hand gear shifter stalk connectors on 116,343 trucks from model year ...

Engineers and automotive designers have done their best to make sure the complicated machinery we call cars are easy to drive and understand — especially the parts that are important to our driving ...

Unless you can shift like Ronnie Sox, automatic transmissions are simply more consistent when racing on the dragstrip. When it comes to street driving, however, most will agree that there's no better ...

Around 116,000 Peterbilt and Kenworth semi-trucks were recalled because of improperly crimped connectors in the gear shifter. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced that ...

Over 850,000 vehicles sold by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will be investigated by the NHTSA because of around 300 complaints regarding the gear shift selector. Initially, the NHTSA was only ...

Hybrid Racing's Adjustable Short Shifter Assembly is just a few years old but the idea of the short shifter itself has been a staple in the import community for a few decades. At this point, it's ...

The owner of a Ford Maverick has swapped out the truck's dial-type gear selector with a proper lever-type shifter from a Ford F-150, and it's a surprisingly simple modification. The dial-type shifter ...

The clutch is one of the major wearing parts in manual transmission equipped Corvettes. In part 1 of this series we showed the tranny removal. Now let’s take a look at parts options, important ...