X on the Tree
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I've owned one 4-sp column shifter, on a '60's Mercedes. Needless to say, it was over-engineered but had a wonderful feel. It had a cast shifter gearbox on the bottom of the column with brass gears and was totally sealed, and oil-filled. Absolutely wonderful but nothing that would help here.
I'd be curious to see the Econoline 4-sp columns shifter mechanism. If you look at how the 3-sp column shifter works, you could just add a third shifter lever at the bottom of the column, but the throw at the shift lever fore-aft (across neutral) would probably have you hitting the dash on one end and the steering wheel on the other. To avoid that you'd have to use a smaller diameter selector pin, or more of a lever ratio up top.
The better approach might be to do what FWD cars do with their floor shifters: use two cables with a bellcrank on one motion to operate a single-rail shifter on say a T5.
I'd be curious to see the Econoline 4-sp columns shifter mechanism. If you look at how the 3-sp column shifter works, you could just add a third shifter lever at the bottom of the column, but the throw at the shift lever fore-aft (across neutral) would probably have you hitting the dash on one end and the steering wheel on the other. To avoid that you'd have to use a smaller diameter selector pin, or more of a lever ratio up top.
The better approach might be to do what FWD cars do with their floor shifters: use two cables with a bellcrank on one motion to operate a single-rail shifter on say a T5.
Hotshot
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From: Durham NC
Ford offered an OD option on sedans in the mid fifties that was activated with a switch (cable?) under the dash, so you had 3 on the tree + switch. The trannys/OD units come up on ebay once in a while.
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