Does anyone have any suggestions for a budget minded floor shifter and/or pictures of one installed in a truck? I want it to be tall enough to be useful. I don't like the B&M ratchet shifter on a pedestal look. Thanks for any help!

 

Here are images of my Lokar shifter on top of a C-6. I took pictures with the shifter in 1st and in Park to show that there is enough clearance. The Lokar uses a cable system. Pretty easy to install.

 

 

Some may be tired of me posting this, but it does work out well on the full size truck. A cheap easy automatic floor shift is the aerostar shifter. It is cable operated and requires a small modification at the end of the cable to match your linkage. I drove my 67 for a couple of years this way. The whole thing installs very well.

These are pictures from an aerostar in the junkyard.

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I have a b&m ratchet shifter in one of my trucks, and i cant say that im overly impressed with the look or the use, although i know of 2 other guy with them and they like them. I do like the look of the lokar one posted above, although im sure it wasnt cheap. the truck i put the ratchet shifter in may see a manual valve body and some drag racing in its future, so im sure it will be fine, but for a driver i think i would go with the lokar next time.

 

Do you have pics of the Aerostar shifter installed in a truck?

 

Thanks. Current price in JEGs is less than $200. I like to shop stuff, and found mine for considerably less, at a hot rod shop where is was a return and on their sale rack.

I like it because it gives the impression of the old style manual shift lever.

 

I think the shifter is in my dads barn somewhere. My truck was totaled years ago. I had to cut the shaft linkage from the column to the transmission on the truck. I then clamped it with hose clamps to the end of the shift cable from the aerostar.

Now that I am older, I think that the mod could be made to look a lot better than the crude piece I had made when I was twenty.

 

I have a B&M quick silver shifter in my 5.0 Ranger, and I love it for that application.



but for a full size truck I would go with the lokar shifter. Very slick looking, most people assume the truck is a standard shift by the look of it!

 

I have a B&M unimatic shifter in my 67. It's cable style.

 

I have the B&M Z-gate in mine. It was about $129 and came with the cable and all the brackets needed to use on nearly any transmission.

 

I like that Lokar one too. Just wondering how do you shift in and out of park. Press it down?

 

Here's some ideas from a thread I started: https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/9...-shifters.html. Some are auto and some are manual.

 

 

Its the same as any other floor shifter. It has a button in the middle of the shift ****. The button is machined to be flush with the **** so it appears to be a manual shifter. They have a variety of ***** available including a piston, a skull, and pool *****. Mine is the stock ****.