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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | 1949 original steering mast with a Turbo 400 automatic transmission. What is everyone using for a gear indicator?
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall | | Moderator: Welcome Centre, Southern Bolters, Legion Hall Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 14,522 | ...not using it but maybe one from a 67 or 68?? Check LMC catalog as their illustrations are pretty nice....but watch the price! | | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | Also Lokar has a few remote indicators that you can mount on you're dash or floor.Depends what you're using for a shifter.
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Last edited by Pete52; 05/17/2016 1:02 PM.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,596 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,596 | I use the 2600000010 from Ididit, Click here. This one sticks onto your column, but it's also for a newer column so might be a different curvature than your stock column. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | The original mast seems to be too small in diameter for the above mentioned indicators. Anyone have any pics of a truck interior with hydra-matic column shifter?
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | The original mast seems to be too small in diameter for the above mentioned indicators. Anyone have any pics of a truck interior with hydra-matic column shifter? From Jim Carter: same size/shape steering column as used in 47-55 small trucks (just a few different holes in the column). | | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | What shifter are you using?
Pete | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 |
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,262 | The 1954 truck at joker's link has the standard 54/55 Hydra-Matic shifter (gear-indicator and shift-arm). Here is a photo from that album that almost shows how the shifter/indicator attaches to the steering column. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | this is a test, here we go ok, I thought I had that one shot instead of the entire album and had to figure out what went wrong.. done deal.. all pix are great, would love that to have that truck
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Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 | | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | What shifter are you using?
Pete Pete, I'm using the original shifter arm and an internally modified, original shifter box with one arm left on it.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | That is exactly the way I would have done it, except that this truck will be driven by my 21 year old son.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | Well lets just buy the whole truck and be done with it?  Yes there is a picture there that helps.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | My Cousin did that when we Hotrodded his 63 Ford van/pickup, but after driving it for a couple of weeks we bought a B&M shifter from Ebay and installed that.I put a Lokar floor shifter in my 52 and am very happy with the way it looks and works.
Pete | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 843 | show him how to do it. Park: all the way to the top. Reverse: one position down. [plus the truck will back up.] Neutral: self explain. Drive: forward. I don't mean this to be sarcastic. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 1,644 | I guess it turned out that he just didn't like it ,he had the same shift pattern. It was hard to speed shift from 1st to 2nd and than to 3rd.And we know how to shift.
Pete | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,059 | show him how to do it. Park: all the way to the top. Reverse: one position down. [plus the truck will back up.] Neutral: self explain. Drive: forward. I don't mean this to be sarcastic. BC, can I get your phone number so that I can give it to the boy's mother? I'm not very good at spainin' such matters.
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
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