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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 | Hi all,
I'm new to stovebolt, and I'm glad to have found the place - great info!
I am a poor 19 year old punk from the darkest backwaters of southeast Missouri. My truck is a 64 C10, which I finished building a 357 vortec for over the summer. I also bought a saginaw car 4-speed to slap on her, which leads me to the subject of this post:
Who knows a 4-speed shifter for this car tranny that's got a shift handle like my truck's old top-loader? These short-handled jobs are gonna have me craning over the floor pan with every shift. Is my only option a custom weld job? Info, info, please, please, please. And thanks. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 469 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 469 | Don't know about any top loader conversions. I f the old truck was a three on the tree they can be converted to a four speed tranny. I did this on a 53 one time and worked will well. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 926 | If you go with an aftermarket shifter(Hurst,etc.) it isn't too hard to build a shifter extension; I've even used threaded rod with the same thread as the shifter,you can bend it to put the knob where it's comfortable to use.Use a steel long-nut and two short jam-nutsto attach it to the shifter,and you might have to make an adapter at the top depending what shift knob you want to use. Use red loctite to assemble the bottom coupling. Once you have it all together except the knob,slide a piece of that foam tube stuff for insulating pipes over the whole shifter,from the bottom clear up to the top of the threads. Use a size that just fits over the shifter,and when you tighten the knob down,it'll look like a one piece shifter,custom bent to fit you.You can probably stretch the shifter boot opening enough to fit over the foam to add the finished look. (With a dremel you can even customize the top of the foam tube to provise some finger clearance wherever your fingers would lie when you shift.
Just one suggestion.
Speed | | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 662 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 662 | http://go.mrgasket.com/pdf/HURST.pdf Go to page 18, shifter 391 0001, kit 373 7919 Go to page 49 to see stick drawing 538 4311 | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 | Thanks for all,
these are the freshest ideas I've come across in a while.
Bluto | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 83 | Yeah, that's the one, chuckthetruck.
I've been researching Hurst for some time and never saw this one. Big thanks. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 Socket Breaker | | Socket Breaker Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,877 | speed - that's good thinking there.
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