Hey folks. I've got a 1965 C10 that has had a 350/350 installed. When I purchased it, it had a floor shifter, but I decided to put a tilt column with a column shifter in it. I thought I'd step out and put a nice one in so I purchased a Flaming River polished tilt column. The column came with a Lokar shift linkage that was supposedly correct for my installation. Long story short, the wiring was a disaster and I eventually had to cut out their "GM" plug because when it moved the connections were lost. Anyway, I finally got what I thought was the shift linkage adjusted only to discover it's backwards. In other words, when in park the column indicator shows 1. The obvious solution is to flip the arm on either the transmission or the column. Unfortunately, there isn't clearance at either end. The column arm would hit the inner fender and the transmission end would hit what I believe was the original crossmember. I called Flaming River tech support, they were worthless, had no idea at all. Next I tried Lokar and they weren't much better. Told me they didn't have anything for my application.
I can't believe I'm the first one to do this so I'm reaching out to you guys to see what you think. Possible option is to cut out the original crossmember for clearance at the transmission but that seems really drastic and I don't know if the original crossmember needs to stay for support. It is not connected in anyway to the transmission.
Another option would be to make some kind of bell crank to get the actuator action reversed.
Another option wold seem to be some kind of flex cable to get around behind the transmission arm and move it in the correct direction.
Like I said, I can't be the first to do this. What have you all done?
