We take our project 1960 pontiac catalina and continue its upgrades converting its classic column shift to a floor shift cruiser with parts from lokar.
How to make a floor shifter into a column shifter.
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A column shifter is located on the steering column of your automobile usually on the right side.
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Automotive engineers in detroit wanted to get away from floormounted shifters and create shifters built into the steering column.
In order to create a column mounted shifter the actual transmission shift mechanism now had to have a series of external shifter shafts linkage arms shift rods and levers for this design to be feasible.
The correct way to remedy this problem is either get a c6 from a floor shift car or a column shift car which ever you need.
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If the column shifter pulls the linkage forward for park the floor shifter will push it into low gear while displaying park on the console.
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