Shifting arm

A sheet-metal shifting arm for transmitting shifting movements in a transmission, wherein the shifting arm has a bracket-shape and is formed from a thin sheet without cutting of the sheet;

• the shifting arm having a first wall section with a recess opening therein in the shape of a mouth opening toward one edge of the shifting arm, and the opening being adapted for engagement of a shifting finger;
• the recess being at least partially bounded by two opposed stop faces, which are formed without cutting of the sheet;
• the sheet having angled sections out of the plane of the sheet in which the stop faces are formed;
• the sheet including three further wall sections which are angled out of the plane of the sheet and angled out of the first wall section and which projects in the same direction out of the plane, and the first wall section merging integrally into the three further wall sections.

A process for forming a sheet-metal shifting arm for transmitting shifting movements, said process comprising the steps of:

• cold-forming only of sheet metal to obtain necessary accuracies of functional dimensions of said sheet-metal shifting arm;
• and
• hardening at least a portion of said sheet metal,
• said process not including a step of cutting said sheet metal.