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From: Oklahoma
Shifter ****
Where can you get a new shifter **** for an older t-18 4 speed
(reverse over and up).
Ford house says it's discont, and I didn't see one in the dennis carpenter catalog. I got about a shifter **** emergency. thanks, Ron
(reverse over and up).
Ford house says it's discont, and I didn't see one in the dennis carpenter catalog. I got about a shifter **** emergency. thanks, Ron
Laughing Gas
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From: Parkville, MO (KC)
I looked ALL OVER for one. Never could find a new one. I was at an auction -- saw an old t-18 tranny being sold. Bought the WHOLE tranny just for the shift **** on it!!! **** was nice. Need a tranny, sight unseen??
I saw a pretty ugly one in a junk yard recently, lot of sun damage. But it was intact and I read somewhere that you can buff Backelite back to a shine. I'd be worried though that you would buff out the numbers (which is why I assume you want it, as I did).
If you find one, you can just wax it with butcher's wax, then carefully with your finger rub some white paint into the numbers and grooves of the shift pattern, then let it dry and wax it again. Will probably look OK.
If you have no luck locally, send me an email and remind me to look for the ugly one I saw here in Kansas. If I find it, I am sure I can get it for practically nothing and send it to ya! But it might be not worth much either....
sorry to be so little help -- but at least moral support!!
I saw a pretty ugly one in a junk yard recently, lot of sun damage. But it was intact and I read somewhere that you can buff Backelite back to a shine. I'd be worried though that you would buff out the numbers (which is why I assume you want it, as I did).
If you find one, you can just wax it with butcher's wax, then carefully with your finger rub some white paint into the numbers and grooves of the shift pattern, then let it dry and wax it again. Will probably look OK.
If you have no luck locally, send me an email and remind me to look for the ugly one I saw here in Kansas. If I find it, I am sure I can get it for practically nothing and send it to ya! But it might be not worth much either....
sorry to be so little help -- but at least moral support!!
Laughing Gas
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From: Parkville, MO (KC)
Lets see -- five reasons to know the shift pattern. Father, brother, son, nephew, wife. Never can tell when an emergency might require someone unaquainted with a T-18 to drive it. Hitting reverse instead of 3rd is a bit of a jolt!!!
And hey, I like the stock look. I remember when the numbers were crisp, clean and almost new -- and those are good memories..........
later.........
And hey, I like the stock look. I remember when the numbers were crisp, clean and almost new -- and those are good memories..........
later.........
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From: Urbandale, Iowa
As it happens, the parts truck that Stude51 and I took apart had a T-18 in it, and I tossed the shifter **** into my toolbox. Sure enough, it's got reverse over and up. Numbers are all visible and crisp - it still has the hash marks around about 2/3 of the outside of the ****. This truck was evidently parked after just 10 years on the road - I took a little fine cut rubbing compound to it, and it cleaned up fairly nicely. It isn't shiney black, but it ain't bad.
Try polishing your up. I'm not sure I'd wax it - might slide off trying to shift fast!
Try polishing your up. I'm not sure I'd wax it - might slide off trying to shift fast!
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From: pasadena tx.
if you can throw it in reverse from second it must not be moving cause it is not going to happen.
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From: Thomson, GA
But it would scare the mess outta ya! I decided that Id let my girl shift one time for me, and I said "move it up a bit into Neutral- to the middle, real slow untill you get the feel of it"
Ok...
WHAM!!GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.............
.......
.......
"that was bad, wasnt it"
Too many dang F&F movies.
Ok...
WHAM!!GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.............
.......
.......
"that was bad, wasnt it"
Too many dang F&F movies.
Laughing Gas
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From: Parkville, MO (KC)
xlt70black -- technically you are right -- since reverse is not fully synchronized in the t-18, trying to get in there will just cause a lot of grinding and maybe damage the gears. Might scare someone who was not aquainted with the vehicle, but aside from that and maybe some metal filings, no loss.
So, you are right. Feel better?
Now, for those of us who appreciate some idea what the shift pattern is, I still would like a source for that shift ****.
So, you are right. Feel better?
Now, for those of us who appreciate some idea what the shift pattern is, I still would like a source for that shift ****.
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From: Black Hills of SD
I like the one on my T-18 because it has taken all these years and almost 200,000 miles to get it's personality.
At first I was thinking why would you even let someone drive the truck that has to look at the **** to shift it, then I remembered this experience: I had a 74 highboy and had switched the ***** on the tranny and T-case. I was logging and one of the cutters needed to move the pickups. When I came back that evening my pickup was off the road and stuck in a brush pile. Totally peeved I asked what had happened. Well the guy was so confused by the ***** and couldn't find reverse that he found a foreward gear and got the truck out of harms way as best he could. I was totally amazed and baffled over the whole thing. I put the ***** back where they belonges.
At first I was thinking why would you even let someone drive the truck that has to look at the **** to shift it, then I remembered this experience: I had a 74 highboy and had switched the ***** on the tranny and T-case. I was logging and one of the cutters needed to move the pickups. When I came back that evening my pickup was off the road and stuck in a brush pile. Totally peeved I asked what had happened. Well the guy was so confused by the ***** and couldn't find reverse that he found a foreward gear and got the truck out of harms way as best he could. I was totally amazed and baffled over the whole thing. I put the ***** back where they belonges.
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