A manual transmission with 3 gears and reverse that is located on the steering column.
3 on the tree or 4 on the floor.
3 on the tree gear levers were made for the days when a family was around 6 or 7 people and were put up on the steering column so a bench seat could be fitted in the front of the car.
Are these trannys junk and is there any way to convert it to a floor shifter or put a 4 speed in it.
My 1941 plymouth special deluxe came with one and.
There are very few things in the world.
Converting 3 on the tree to floor shift 09 28 04 09 43 pm post 519486 in response to budnate just jack the car right up and chock it well you dont need to grind any of the floor out.
If you put it on the floor and don t have a 4 speed 3 on the floor sounds stupid.
This was the only car i owned with manual stick transmission and one of the few vehicles i regularly drove with such a shifter.
There is a godly quality to the study of big numbers.
I like it on the tree and on the floor depends on the vehicle for me.
I got the mr gasket set and a b m shifter universal cable for th400 the hole only needs to be bigger than the biggest diameter on the cable.
Floor shift always whether 3 or 4 speed or 5 or 6.
Starchief1959 jun 11 2008.
These days few cars have more than 4 or 5 in a family so bucket seats are fitted to the front of the car for more comfort and looks.
From june 1978 to june 1979 i owned a well used 1966 plymouth belvedere ii with good old 3 on the tree and oil buring leaking slant i 6 under the hood.
The three on the tree column mounted manual transmission shifter was for a very long time the most common setup in american motor vehicles.
Big numbers like graham s number are impossibly big bigger than our universe.
03 18 09 03 07 pm post 1654748 hey guys im thinking about getting a 67 elky with a 283 and what seems like a 3 on the tree manual transmission.