Quickly running out of budget. Wondering if anyone has built their own functional automatic shifter? Ford aod if that matters. Im thinking that all i really need is the stick, a rocker arm, and a rod to the shift lever on the trans. But I have no idea how to actually do it. Ideas and your solutions?
In reply to Dusterbd13:
On some of our stock cars I have run a piece of rod from the ear on the transmission through the floor and put a little draw knob on it. You have to be careful because there's no reverse lock out.
Eff that, i'll give you one
In reply to patgizz:
Really?!
Wall-e wrote: In reply to Dusterbd13: On some of our stock cars I have run a piece of rod from the ear on the transmission through the floor and put a little draw knob on it. You have to be careful because there's no reverse lock out.
back when we were young, immortal, and knew everything there was to know about everything (he was 16, i was 14) my cousin drove his 78 Cutlass around all summer with a rod poking thru the floor that was held into the stock shifter arm on the trans by nothing more than good intentions and good luck... sometimes it fell out and someone had to crawl under the running car while he held the brake to either put it back in or shift from R to D.. he didn't need to do it like that, he just didn't like the idea of the stock column shift in his burnout machine for some reason..
Dusterbd13 wrote: In reply to patgizz: Really?!
Yes.
I don't know if its possible, but I'm going to try.
With the aod requirements for locking second id try to make budget for a shifter.
In reply to novaderrik: We replaced the stock columns with plain shafts with removable wheels. The cars ran Powerglides that were run in high gear all the time so there was no need for a shifter and linkage, just pull it all the way back and go.
In reply to dropstep:
Care to elaborate? Im a ford ignorant person.
Coolest shifter I ever saw was a double nut on the shift stud of the transmission, a deep socket, extension, and a couple of swivels up to the floor hump, another extension cutoff through a block in the floor and on the inside a 4" knurled knob with a pointer that pointed to what gear you were in. Best part was the spring loaded pins between each gear, so you had to push the pin down between the gear you were in and where you wanted to be so the knob would turn.
It was a cool bakelite knob from the 50s, in a 50s car.
In reply to oldopelguy:
Yeah. That's just cool.
Dusterbd13 wrote: In reply to dropstep: Care to elaborate? Im a ford ignorant person.
That should be set up for a 3 position shifter, too lock second you have too pull the shifter from low,up to drive and then push it back down into low after it shifts into second too keep it locked in 2nd otherwise it will automatically shift into 3rd. Im guessing theres a way too change it too a 4 position set up but my 81, 85, and 89 all had this set up.
Possible? Sure. Wise? Probably not. Look for a used Mustang or Cougar/Thunderbird shifter?
The trans came from a column shift lincoln town car if that makes any difference, dropstep.
Dusterbd13 wrote: The trans came from a column shift lincoln town car if that makes any difference, dropstep.
Yeah its currently set up for the 3 position shifter. Im not sure how involved it is too switch too a 4 position set up. One of the mustang forums may have the information.
I think I have a pair of floor shifters for a Lincoln MK VII that I would donate to the cause. AOD ready.
In reply to Nitroracer:
Pm sent!
Between you and pat, my life is getting closer to a complete challenge car.
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