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The 99A-7242-B that is offered does not show in any 48/52 truck catalog. It only is listed for the 1939 Ford Deluxe Passenger vehicle which would have had the three speed. That same family three speed was also an option for some trucks in this era and so that is likely why some vendors are offering it for such an application. Your T-98 4 speed has a different shift cover than the three speed and so fitment would be even more questionable.
Whatever rubber boot offered by parts vendors that fits inside the floor is not stock or original to trucks of our era. To seal the floor from the outside, a large foam rubber pad sat on top of the transmission and the trans cover sat down onto it to seal the elements from getting inside. Here's pictures of the remnants of one, and the bottom of the floor cover panel.
I've never seen a rubber boot. Remember these trucks were tools, they didn't have to look pretty. I would image a rubber boot like used on sports cars wouldn't have lasted very long with the dirt and tools being tossed around a hard used truck.
If I built a custom vehicle I always thought one of these would work out pretty good. A flashing boot
I had a 70 F350 with a flatbed dump from 2012 to 2016. It had a Ford factory bed. Whoever put the hoist on must have used a cutting torch on the floor for the PTO and lift levers. The guy I bought it from had old towels pushed in the holes to keep cold air out. I went to a local junkyard to look for shift lever boots. I got two from some small cars and screwed them over the levers and into the floorboard.
here youi can sort of see them. So if youi don't carre if its not original stock to yoiur truck, that is a solution.
This is what I have on my 51. It has no name or numbers on it. I know it isn't original and I have no Idea where I even got it. It fits tight on the shifter and sits good on the floor.
Yeah, I’m not trying to make a show piece. Just trying to find a way to seal things up a bit so dust doesn’t get in as much. Also, to slow down the cold draft in cold weather.
This is what I have on my 51. It has no name or numbers on it. I know it isn't original and I have no Idea where I even got it. It fits tight on the shifter and sits good on the floor.
Hi Jim, What do you have an F1 with a Heavy Duty 3 spd?
It's a F1 with a light duty 3 speed don't really know what it came out of a friend gave it to me. I had a 3 on the tree so I took the guts out of mine and used the best parts of the two and used the floor shift tranny case in my truck even changed the steering column to get rid of the column shift parts.I just like the floor shift better in a truck.
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