The good news: you can grind the shift handle mount off, fill and paint the collar. The floor shift still needs all the linkage at the base of the column in place so the ignition key still locks the steering and shifter.
All of that plus I’ve already done to my original column. Plus I’ve installed a neutral safety switch with my Lokar shifter and the reverse lights work off of the LED shift indicator. All that because when I didn’t know any better, I got rid of everthing off of the column. HINDSIGHT ????The good news: you can grind the shift handle mount off, fill and paint the collar. The floor shift still needs all the linkage at the base of the column in place so the ignition key still locks the steering and shifter.
I’ve got all of that taken care of. Now it’s the loose shaft in the column. I’m right this miute taking it apart to see if I can find the cause.I just bring the shift bar on the column up to park position and bend the bar and secure to the firewall. I already have my reverse lights and neutral safety wired to micro switches on my B & M shifter and there is no getting linkage around my huge headers to go to the column.
Works great and the column locks with the key.
I’ve watched it 3 times and now I’m pausing at each step.Apologies...if I had read this thread from the first post, I would have seen that you had done that already. Hutch's video is really helpful. I bookmarked that puppy. Loctite and this should be the last time into the column...
Back in the poor-boy days, before I was a "professional", we used a circular saw blade and a couple of sockets to depress the plate to pry out the snap ringI didn’t know there was a tool to press the locking wheel. I just used my left hand to press down against the spring, a pick with a 90-degree bend at the tip, and a lot of French.
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