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| | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 | Hi folks. I was thinking of putting a 5 speed on my column. I'm going to run a Tremec 3650 5 speed. I have the mech. figured out just wondered if you think it would be stupid?
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | On a 1953 truck?
Is this for use with your blown 292?
Let us know how these work out for you. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 | Yes. Took a while to figure out how to compensate for the side to side movement of trans.
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,214 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,214 | I drove a 5 speed on-the-tree Datsun pickup once when stationed in Okinawa back in 74 . It was a RHD but the shifter was on the right side of the steering column like LHD models are so it wasn't hard to master.
Would be interesting to follow your build. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 | I've been stuck in PA since the 6th of Feb. building a dry ice plant. Should be home in Oct. then plan to start a build journal here. Can't wait. I've had this truck since 1980 when I got out of the Navy.
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| | | | | Joined: May 2017 Posts: 50 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: May 2017 Posts: 50 | I think it'd be awesome if it works, I'd love some more details about your plans. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,423 ODSS President | | ODSS President Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,423 | What fun! I love my 3onthetree! There is a guy on the left coast that has a 4onthetree Saginaw with a cable pull/push for Reverse. Good for you!
~ Cosmo
1949 Chevy Half Ton
Rocinante, like Don Quixote, he is awkward, past his prime, and engaged in a task beyond his capacities.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 206 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 206 | | | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,275 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,275 | So I am guessing that you are taking on this adventure because you are bound and determined to make a top-loading Tremec 3650 5 speed work in an old truck, but you are having a problem with the extremely rear mounted shifter location.
I was given a brand new one of those babies and I wanted to use it in the worst way, but I bailed out because of my disdain for the complicated arrangement of parts of a 3 on the tree, not to mention making it a 5 on the tree. (actually that ambitious thought never even occurred to me).
I would like to see what you came up with to mate a column shifter to a top-loading transmission.
Carl
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2016 Posts: 1,043 | THANKS to everyone. As far as the Tremec 3650 being too far back if I just flip it 180 degrees it will move it forward where it needs to be does't change the shift pattern. Just have to make a new shifter bar to clear the tranny and raise it up a little. Just like the idea of the column [censored] for the cool factor. Also the hydraulic throw out bearing gives me more room for exhaust.
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