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Not mine but this is what it looks like I believe it may be called a detent plate
Ah, you know what, it's not just the detent plate in the transmission. I completely forgot that it's also requirement to pull the lever to get the car from D to 2nd or OD to D. Hence it needs a "detent" for more than just P and R. Makes sense. I've never had an A or G body with a column shift. Shows you what I don't know.
Column shift cars do have a "detent plate" aka "Gate, Shift Lever" as GM describes it.
I stand corrected. I originally missed this in the parts book. I went to the pages in the back of the section where they have a breakdown listing of all the part numbers and found the "gate" as it were. It's also in the illustration section of the parts book. Under group 4.027.
With column shifts, there are column gates but still, according to the parts book, it only shows whether it's tilt or non tilt with column shift. Only two part numbers from 82-88. Hence we're back to WTF about 3 or 4 speed column shifts. Nothing about whether you have MW9 or MV9, etc. According to the parts book for the B and G bodies from 82-88, there's one column shifter gate part number for G without tilt (7845130), and one part number for G WITH tilt (7835994).
That was a major faux pas on my part, and I apologize for the error.
This is what I get for only ever having floor shifters in a G-body. But I will still stand that there are no 3 or 4 speed version for floor shift columns. I've been inside enough of them to know there IS NOT a detent. At least I've never found one. The gate is on the floor shifter itself. The backdrive linkage controls the position of the lever/sleeve on the column.
I need to go back and delete all that other BS I was spewing earlier about column shifted cars. Again, my apologies.
#19 on the drawing:
Here's a picture of the non-tilt Gate. Can't find one for the tilt gate.
