Diy Floor Shifter Shaft

Depending on how close your floor is to the trans an automatic floor shifter isn t going to sit low.

Diy floor shifter shaft.

Once the floor s opened up you can connect the lever to the floor shifter and then the cable to the lever. A column shifter is located on the steering column of your automobile usually on the right side. It looks like there is a shift shaft retainer clip that you pop out to pull it apart. Swade41 mar 21 2016.

If you would rather buy a nice short throw shifter base please visit the core shifters website. Shiftworks conversion kits allow you to keep your factory shifter and enable it to work perfectly with an upgraded transmission. For an adjustable length rod used 2 long allen bolts. Cut the head off one and ground on it so it would fit into the other bolts head quick weld job made it a double ended pre threaded rod.

For me it was easier to connect the cable to the lever first and then feed the lever up through the floor and bolt it to the mounted floor shifter. I will take it apart cut off the top 1 3 and then reassemble it with the stem turned 180 degrees. To provide that positive shift feel modifying column shift back to a floor shift became the thing to do when drag racing started to flourish in the late 1950s. I modified an s10 short throw shifter for this project.

The column shifter design was a far cry from the positive feel of the direct top cover shifter. Making a custom shifter. All my videos are in 1080p hi def so check that out just an idea on how to convert a column shift steering column to appear as a floor shift column thanks f. I got rid of the plastic cover and hollowed out a 20 dollar quick change cover to replace it.

After everything s connected the cable needs to be secured. You can replace your column shifter with a floor shifter in less than eight hours.