I have a 69 bronco body on a 73 frame. 302 and c4 but with the t shifter t-case. I want to put a floor shifter in, and am looking for ideas. The previous owner removed all of the column shift parts, and I like the idea of a floor shifter. Clearance under the body is fairly tight, I have new poly body bushings, but no body lift. Any ideas?

 

I've got a factory 75 in which I converted it over to a floor shifter, I put in a B&M Starshifter. I know you said your clearance was pretty tight and mine was too, less than an inch but it worked and worked well. The only down fall was I had to cut off the factory linkage bracket on the tranny housing to install the new bracket, but with careful, straight cuts it can be salvaged for future use. They are pretty easy to put in, it was my first conversion and it only took about two hours to get everything in place. The adjustments are the hardest part, but I know how now. If you want to know the specifics and tricks, just let me know I'd be glad to tell ya.

 

It would be great to know more specifics about it. For example, where to cut the hole and other info.

 

First off don't listen to the instructions about cutting a 2" hole in your floorboard, you don't need it. Your not supposed to kink the cable for like the first four inches or something, but if you cut a smaller hole and place it well you can hide it with the shifter housing. You will also need four little spacers about 1/2 long to support the shifter and to give a little more clearance for the hole I was talking about. I used some 1/2 copper tubing for mine and It worked great. One thing you do have to watch for is on the transfer shifter, mine has the J-pattern Dana 20 which required a little extra clearance, so make sure you can put your tranny all the way in park and your transfer all the way in low before you hard mount the shifter. The shifter comes with the neutral safety switches and back up light switch which I didn't put in, but they are simple enough to do if you want. Like I said before the adjustment is the hardest part of the whole ordeal, but if you put the tranny in neutral and the shifter in neutral and then tighten everything down It should work perfectly with maybe a few minor adjustments. One the first run after the install don't rap it up to nine grand before you try and shift because It may not work the first time. I had trouble getting all three gears to work at first, I could get first and second but no third, then second and third but no first, but like I said if you hang it all in neutral to start with you ought to be pretty close to right on. After you get it working you can mount the cover and boot. I took a belt sander to contour the housing to the floor and it worked great, just don't get carried away you can't put it back after you've took it off. I hope I've answered some of your questions, but if you need more I'll try and help if I can, man you won't be sorry, once you ratchet through the gears you'll be wantin' to put one on everthing you own.