Thread: True ratcheting shifter

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“.........Wish I could've made a column shift work. Just no room. And I really don't want it n the floor. THIS managed to keep the floor relatively flat with a very small hump for the transmission. Had to leave room for my little girl to ride in the middle......”

Dave I ran into the same thing when I did the initial mockup on my 37 and wanted to use a column shifter, problem was room and figuring out linkage.

The solution I came up with was using some left over parts from ratchet shifter installs I had done over the years. I welded a bracket to the column housing and drilled a hole in the shift arm, then used the a set of left over brackets on the transmission. One small hole in the firewall to run the shift cable and it was done.

It worked great, but with the change in direction of the project, I ended up with a floor shifter after all (figures don’t it LOL).

Anyway I don’t know if you saw it or not, but there is a picture of the column in my build tread.

Build thread 37 Dodge PU

Just some food for thought, some of the other ideas I had kicked around for shifters included using a dash mounted shifter like some of the RVs used (or possibly dash mounting a Promatic 2 shifter behind the dash with the handle thru the dash http://www.ebay.com/itm/HURST-PROMAT...item4600af679b )

Another thought was to us a Chrysler pushbutton pod and cable from a 50s MOPAR.....I discarded that idea due to no park provision however.

A real slick idea was to use a Teletouch steering column setup from an Edsel (with the push puttons in the steering wheel.......but even Edsel couldn't get those to work right for very long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletouch