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the old trucker:

  Grfishmaker in reply # 4 second pic down, I noticed that you still have the old gear shift lever in place. I've seen that on a couple of others also. Do you have it hooked up to your trans for shifting ?? If you do, could you get me a pic or two of the area around the bottom of the steering column, showing how it works ?? I would like to do the same to mine.  ;) ;)

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grfishmaker:
OT - the auto trans. is hooked up to the old gear shift lever. It is backwards from a normal shifter in that straight down is "park" and one up is "reverse" etc.. It is very hard to get used to and I will change it someday to a more user friendly shifter. Whoever installed it years back simpley hooked it up the the old arm on the bottom of the shifter.

the old trucker:

   Thanks Grfishmaker !! I appreciate that. I have an idea now on how to hook it up the right way.

                                                                                        Thanks again    OT.

grfishmaker:
One thing on mine that's pretty annoying is just how sensitive the shifter is. It is such a short throw movement from park - low on the big shift arm, and there is very little resistance when moving between gears. Throw that together with an automatic with no brakes. It can get a little touchy at times.
 You better draw out some blueprints of your idea so a flatlander that you know can look at. ha ha

the old trucker:


  I'll see what I can come up with.... "Flatlander" !! Sounds different .


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