Shift Pattern Of A 3 Speed On The Floor

So it sat for a while as i contemplated its fate.

Shift pattern of a 3 speed on the floor.

Necessary to provide clearance for shifter and linkage to have free travel. Here is a demo of the shifter going through the gears. As popular as the 86 ford f150 was and with how many came equipped with a 3 speed column shift i was surprised to find that no one sells a replacement. Tried online tried auto shops and i even tried finding a yard to strip one but all searches came up goose eggs.

After that the gear shift on most cars moved to the floor. I ve put a floor shift onto my 3 speed. Lever of shifter may be bent or cut off as necessary for clearance purposes. Most 3 speeds were configured so that first gear in the shifter pattern was located where second gear was on a 4 speed.

My 67 has one although i stayed with the column shift because i didn t want to hack up the floor. This could be confusing to most 4 speed trained brains. I bought a hurst indy shifter for it. Truck originally was a 3 on the tree which was broken when i got it.

Still need to hook my linkage up and install a shifter boot but otherwise shifter itself is installed. Your trans is probably a low performance saginaw box with a 2 86 1 first gear. Converting 3 on the tree to floor shift 09 29 04 05 52 pm post 519488 in response to budnate isn t there a dimple already in the factory floor pan for the shifter. The h pattern for manual transmissions was called this because a full shifting of gears resembles the letter h step 1.

Ok here s the problem. The shifter is assembled at the factory to operate in a pattern that has park position where the stick is all the way forward. Where the 3 speed manual was a hindrance was when a driver was used to the 4 speed shift pattern. The 3 speed h pattern gear shift on the column was standard equipment for many american made vehicles up to the mid 1970s.