pic: 1276's 2007 3-Speed AM Gearboxes

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

It is very possible to unlock, just shift the third gear dog back into neutral. The only real problem is if you were cooking across the field at full speed and then locked them up you might do some damage.

I think he was referring to intentionally locking them up to create a mechanical braking feature.

The biggest issue about using the dogs to lock up the shifters is what happens when it does fail. If you accidentally lock up the gears (which may happen if you have a lock on command feature), or you recieve a significant force to the gearbox when locked up (not sure what force this could be, most external forces this large would probably just cause the wheels to skid well before a failure in the drive) the failure would almost certainly be losing gear teeth. And that spells disaster in a transmission.