Removing Reverse Lockout?

[Hossbaby50]

Is there any simple & effective way to eliminate the reverse lockout on a B&M Truck Megashifter? Life might suck if I was on a big waterfall and needed reverse really quickly with the stock reverse lockout.

Harley

 

[Jason4x4]

Good thing you live in arizona and don't have to worry about that big waterfall.

 

[Hossbaby50]

This AZ waterfall was big enough to do this to a Marv's old buggy. He said the B&M reverse lockout almost cost him big time right here. I missed this pic by about 2 minutes as I was farther up the trail but I did get there in time to see Marv pulling seat foam out of his backside.

There are quite a few big waterfalls in AZ if you know where to find them.

Harley

 

[CDA 455]

This AZ waterfall was big enough to do this to a Marv's old buggy. He said the B&M reverse lockout almost cost him big time right here. I missed this pic by about 2 minutes as I was farther up the trail but I did get there in time to see Marv pulling seat foam out of his backside.

There are quite a few big waterfalls in AZ if you know where to find them.

Harley

Wow!

Is that an 'in-action' pic, or did it stop rolling that way?

 

[Hossbaby50]

It stopped there thankfully and they winched the frontend back down. It would have sucked but they base of that waterfall was a soft sand so it would have at least been the nicest landing possible if he had went over.

Harley

 

[nvrenuf]

I used to use a B&M Prostick, the reverse lockout on it was a "bump" on the side of the mechanism the moved up and down with the trigger. With the cover off it was easy to take it off with a die grinder.

 

[slyguy_22]

I dont see any water? around here we call those ditches!
Cool photo though.
So how exactly does the reverse lockout work? Do you have to be fully stopped in order to put it in reverse?

 

[nvrenuf]

Reverse lockout is a feature on ratchet shifters that prevent you from shifting into reverse by accident. Typically, there is a trigger to squeeze or "T" handle to lift up before your allowed to go from neitral to reverse.

 

[pauly383]

I dont see any water? around here we call those ditches!

When our freaky summer storms come , you best not be caught in our "ditches" , they fill up quick and carry cars away

Even happens in winter if we get enough rain , and/or snowmelt up north .

 

[Hossbaby50]

Yep the reverse lockout on my Megashifter is the T-handle you pull up.

Our "ditches" here like Pauly said are very unpredictable in the summer monsoons. We crossed a river a few years back on a night run that was barely flowing. We were wheeling a trail about 8 miles past the river. 1/2 way through the trail it started raining pretty hard so we halled arse back to the river as fast as we could but it still took us about 1-1.5hrs to get out of the trail and back to the river.

When we crossed it it was 2ft deep & 15ft wide. When we got back it was 6-8ft deep & 80+ft wide and was still growing and flowing like mad. We had to wait 5+hrs till the river went back down enough to cross. It was still deep enough that 40" MTR's were completely underwater on my buddies truggy.

This happened to another set of wheelers that same night on a different trail that was narrower and got hit with a flash flood.

Luckily nobody died that night from this group. The worst that happened was a girl broke her leg pretty badly & as you can see the Jeep was completly destroyed.

Harley

 

[dremu]

Is the Jeep levitating? Next you know the Jeeps will be walking on water!

-- A