I'm changing my 73 maverick from a column shift to an A/t floor shifter. I have a few unanswered questions. Do you have to change the shift bracket on the transmission? It is a c4 on a 250, and my understanding is that the column shift is a push action and the floor shift would be a pull action. Can you still mount to the existing bracket.
I have a B&M Megashifter on mine and you have to cut part of a bracket off. Not sure if the others are that way. Go to this link and click on installaton instructions. I think it's shown on page 5.
No, not without welding a tab on the top of it to hook rod from shifter or taking rod out of tranny and flipping it. This only if you are using a factory floor shifter, if you are using a B M or Hurst or other then you can
I'm having the tranny rebuilt. I can have them flip itwhile its being rebuilt. Is there any change that need to be done to the kick down arm?
Kick down arm stays the same. As a side note I just listed a nice factory floor shifter on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200447555013&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
The rod from transmission to the steering column wont do you any good unless you have the transmission shop put a lever on your transmission that has a lever with holes in it on top and bottom, completely different from what you have
Just to note Flipping the lever doesnt work or at least it didnt for me. The angle was still far off. I could pull out of park and into gear but couldnt go back into park because the angle was too high. I had to cut off the tab and reweld it on about 20 degree's from a normal flipping position.
Had not thought about that, good question. I guess you would have to cut the arm off and have it welded to the top
instead of welding it, you could get something like this Nut and Bolt go on bottom and you tighten it up to create basically, a new arm for changing gears
