Colum Shifter To Floor Shifter

The auto column shift components are way more plentiful than the floor shift pieces.

Colum shifter to floor shifter.

Go on ahead and turn on your vehicle and test your column shifter and make sure that it goes through all the gears as it s suppose to. Not long after the swap i decided to go a step further and switch the car from it s rather worn out original column shift to a floor shift configuration as well. You can replace your column shifter with a floor shifter in less than eight hours. Although i have never tried it i have heard you can remove the lever from the trans and rotate it 180 and reinstall it.

2 console and top plate best bet is to find a nice used original base and maybe a new repop top plate. And that will be no big deal if you have the removable center floor piece like the 49 51 s do. I grabbed my laptop and punched up. Great friend and master fabricator ben emerson converted a column shifter to a floor shifter as part of the restoration of our 1937 gougeon streamliner.

Got a few things to trade as well. That will require you to drop the pan and possibly the valve body as well. The hardest part about installing the gennie shifter is probably getting the main bracket installed. Or you can bondo up the old one and paint it to match to cover up the hole.

I am interested in buying your column and shifter if you re pulling it out of the car. Are you using a factory type floor shifter or is it aftermarket. If you are modifying your car and want to change from a column shifter to a floor shifter the job is as simple as changing a few levers. We had some challenges because this car is actually a mid engine car with the shifting mechanism in front of the engine transmission but this involved just a reversing of the mechanism.