manual valve body questions?

[rokrash]

My wife was not really thrilled with the crawl ratio in my jeep while at EJS. It is a 350/th400/np205 and she is used to my old jeep's sm420. She wants "gears" in the future, so I have been looking at options. I am not independently wealthy and have a limited budget, so . . .I have been looking at the LoMax 3:1 gears and case for starters, but the other thing that I found was TCI's "Full Manual Shift Valve Body w/ Low Gear Engine Braking"

I like the sound of having the low gear engine braking for decents, but was wondering how a manual shift valve body works?

The jeep is very driveable now. You can get in and go with no thought involved. How much will this change its driveability?

Thanks,

 

[I Lean]

It'll work just like it sounds....you have to move the shifter to let the trans shift into each gear. It will also stay in that gear no matter what, so you can stick it in 3rd and that's where you'll stay, whether it's the right choice of gears or not.

Right now you most likely have no compression braking while in Drive, but if you shift manually down to 1st or 2nd you do have compression braking. The reason they mention that specifically is because some manual valvebodies don't have that feature.

 

[rokrash]

So does that mean that if I shift to 1st gear in my current configuration it should be the same as being in 1st gear in the TCI MVB? So, I would only really be gaining the MVB and not any other added benefit?

 

[Bart]

Yes, that and you get get to manually shift every time you shift. Also, you don't have to worry about a kick down cable.

I am adding a MVB to my tranny, but my wife hates driving with it. She likes the auto of an auto.

 

[UPNO4]

MVB's are great to keep the trans in the gear you want, but you can't foget about them.
Most Auto's hold pretty good when you pull them down manually to first gear.

 

[rokrash]

That answers all of my questions, I think. I know that my wife would not like driving it and it spends more time on the roads than on the trail (at least while I still live in Nebraska. . . Colorado here I come. . .in a couple years!!!!).

I have heard that a reverse MVB will help in a near roll to quickly shift into reverse.

I will keep looking!