Click on image for the lowdown. 
====
| | | Forums66 Topics128,115 Posts1,056,594 Members48,448 | | Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!
| | THANKS!
For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down
with Ads!  Again, thanks!
| | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 | Here are a couple pictures of the shift lever I am making for my truck. Shift lever 1 Shift lever 2I'm not really sure I'll use it. I think it might be too top heavy and cause the transmission to pop out of gear. I tried it on my t-5 and it seems ok but I think I need to add another mounting hole so I can move the center of gravity forward or backwards. Any comments? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | looks good........might look even better in my hot-rod in place of my hurst shifter on the four speed muncie.
you do good work, enjoyed your web also.
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: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,082 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,082 | looks very cool bill...
reminds me of the down tubes indian larry would use on his chopper motorcycles...
leonard | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 388 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 388 | Hey Bill,
Verry Good Job on the shift lever! Do you think you will chrome or power coat it?
Either way they it look good.
I have the original shift lever from my 4 sp granny that I'm gonna use on my Sag 4sp. but still trying to see if I want to use the orginal shifter knob or the 8 ball.
I'm like you I want something diffrent to personalize it inside and what better way than with a shift lever and knob.
Mike | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | bill,very nice.cant wait to see the whole package.your truck is over the top in my opinion.motor is incredible......dave
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 | Whoa Nellie! Man that is totally out of left field, Bill! I wasn't expecting anything like that as I opened this post. Very, very cool! I don't think I have ever seen a shifter like that, but I have see some iron work on some cycles around here like that. Nice stuff!! You need to get that truck finished so we can see how good you are!! Joe 
Last edited by 6cylindersovertexas; 04/07/2008 4:52 AM.
"Truckin' Around .......... Since 1937!" My name is Joe and I am addicted to Classic Country Music. I just can't hep myself.Operators are standing by to take your calls! Now cruising in the Passing Lane | | | | | Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,703 | That is 1 COOL SHIFTER!...hope ya stick to your guns an make it work! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 | Ahhhh. You guys are too kind.
I would love to have it chromed, that would be very cool. I haven't really figured out the colors for my interior.
Poor Joe has heard me talking about bending up my old shift lever, so I guess this is kind of differnt. I came up with the idea after seeing some iron work on line.
The best part of this whole project was it olny cost me about $23.00 to make. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,820 | Bill - How is the throw going to be with the new stick on the shifter you have? I'm sure you have checked that. I know when those sticks get long, you start shifting over the seat and into the dash. A "speed shift" takes 15 seconds! Chrome would be beautiful!! Joe 
"Truckin' Around .......... Since 1937!" My name is Joe and I am addicted to Classic Country Music. I just can't hep myself.Operators are standing by to take your calls! Now cruising in the Passing Lane | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Nice looking there Bill!
Cliff59 | | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 338 | Joe,
I have a really nice short throw B&M kit for my T-5 and that helps a lot, but with the long shifter you are back to a pretty large shift pattern. It is managable, the shifter has over shift stops on it so you can't swing the lever way forward or way backwards.
I'm still not sure the weight is going to be good for the tranny.
| | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 2,031 |
Last edited by carolines truck; 04/08/2008 3:04 PM.
Jim & Caroline
The highway is for gamblers, better use your good sense."
Gooday-that's my 1¢ answer due to the lousy economy ~ cause I ain't got - no . mo . doe
Every Shaver | Now Can Snore | Six More Minutes | Than Before ... | Half A Pound for Half a Dollar | Spread On Thin | Above the Collar || BURMA-SHAVE
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 866 | I love it, great work, Bill!!! | | | | | Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 434 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 434 | Love it. I'm making something like that for mine, but probably will go with the 8-ball shift knob.
R-Bo
1959 Apache 1/2 ton Big Window, Short bed Fleetside (under reconstruction)
1966 GMC 305V6 in the family
| | |
|
|
