Thread: Lokar floor shifter....

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For what it is worth my son and I removed a "Gennie Shifter" (no lockout) and replaced it with the Lokar this Spring just to get the lockout feature and to my surprise the Gennie rod was even thinner than the one on the Lokar so for now I am using the one that came with the Lokar. With a 700R4 you really only need to shift from Reverse to Drive so unless you are forcing the trans into a lower gear there is little abuse on the shifter. If you are going to drag race in lower gears maybe you can bend the rod with sudden shifts but the auto trans should do that for you in normal street driving. Should we remind folks that the 700R4 has METRIC bolts? Fortunately after I stripped some of the mounting threads with SAE bolts there was still a lot of the rear mounting bosses to use longer metric bolts and there was still plenty of thread left in the metric boss. If you use long SAE bolts in the trans casing you will wipe out the metric threads! I am still learning!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder