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Always had the problem of the truck not holding park very well. Finally got around to fixing it. Figured the detent plate was probably worn. Turned out to be the hole for the roll pin that holds the shift arm. It had worn quite a bit (only at the top though) and caused a lot of play in the arm. Came up with a simple fix. Alternative would've meant buying and painting a new shift collar.
The tapered neck of the #10 ss bolt fits nicely where the hole is worn and a lock nut allows for free movement. Shifts nice and holds park solid now.
You did good. One thing to note, too, is that the newer automatic columns used a different shift collar design that had a separate pointer rather than the pointer built into the collar like our originals.
There was also a shift collar that had the integrated pointer like ours, but had some changes to strengthen areas that were shown to be weak in the original casting. Used in the years 1969-1972.
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In my opinion, if you ever have to replace yours this is the one to be on the lookout for.
Interesting info Chad. I'll keep it in mind if/when the collar wears beyond repair. For now though, I'm glad I didn't have to buy any parts (for a change).
bought some knotty pine and redid the bed-tried to reuse as much old hardware as possible-not perfect but pretty damm good and not a single aw fudge moment-painted the under side and treated the top w/ used motor oil-also got a new starter cable,fuel pump & valve cover gasket
Decided I was too old to be crawling under the truck to get to the spare. So I went to the junk yard an got a spare tire hoist from an 02 F150. I think it's going to work OK. It's got to be better than unbolting the spare and letting it fall out on top of your head. I think it's probably going to require some high school math to get that drive rod hole in just the right spot, but I'll deal with that when I put the bed back on. And no that isn't the spare I'm going to use.
Decided I was too old to be crawling under the truck to get to the spare. So I went to the junk yard an got a spare tire hoist from an 02 F150. I think it's going to work OK. It's got to be better than unbolting the spare and letting it fall out on top of your head. I think it's probably going to require some high school math to get that drive rod hole in just the right spot, but I'll deal with that when I put the bed back on. And no that isn't the spare I'm going to use.
Did the same thing to mine. Seems the older I get, the heavier things get. Would hate to have to wrestle that thing out on the side of a road somewhere. I created an access point in the bed to lower the tire and also kept the original tire carrier as well. Keeps things looking original and no chance of anything coming loose. I lost a spare once due to a snapped cable. Probably a 1 in 1 million occurrence but I like zero chances even better.
01-28-2018, 12:35 PM
