Thread: Lokar floor shifter....

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Anyone use the Lokar shifter that bolts to the floor and not the tranny? Like it? Or, anyone with the tailmount shifter? Like it?

David

Crickets....... anyone?

IMO it's junk!!!! Threaded rod for a shifter rod? No thanks, I'll stick with a shifter that uses a cable for an automatic!

yep i used the trans mounted and did make up a read shift rod not the all thread P.O.S they give you in kit been on customers truck for 10 years his kids have not busted it yet . no floor mounted shifters for me with out a cable

* Must agree with Dave, those shifters are too prissy, not stout. Check out B&M good product last a long time, pretty sure you'll will find one that will suit you needs. One advantage to the cable is the shifter can be mounted anywhere you like.

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

I had a customer build where they wanted the transmount one----geometry down to the trans lever was awful and index notches didn't line up---put an idler arm type thingie on a crossmember and another arm back forward to trans to correct the indexes and pattern---for me, I use a OEM type shifter modded to mount on the floor where its convenient/comfortable to seat and a cable just like the factories------

Probably going to pull that pretty Lokar out of my '31 and install a cable shifter that I can actually feel/see what gear it's in plus don't either knock it into neutral or 2nd with my right knee as it has no real detent or gate to keep it in gear. As far as the hardware supplied - junked the original 10-32 heims and rod and replaced it with 1/4" along with decent solid heims. As far as operation - works fine but understand the limitations of ALL three types

I put a floor mount Lokar on the turbo 350 in my '35 and it was real tough to get all the linkage to line up cuz the position I needed was so for forward on the tranny - didn't function real well. So I got the cable conversion kit from Lokar and it works like a dream. I shift manually most of the time and it's great.

35ChevSedan, Did you update a rod connector with an available cable kit? If so I would like to do that too.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Had a B&M truck shifter that needed a stout floor to mount to, for the downward force it took to shift the cable between gears. Took up too much space, so I'm in the process of shifting to a Lokar transmission mounted Nostalgia shifter. They are pricey, but sure seem to work well per others I've talked with.

Yes - for the 350 its kit #S-7100. I just emailed Lokar and asked them about it - they were very helpful.