ratchet shifter

i wanna put a ratchet shifter/3 speed straight (b&m) shifter in to my 1964 galaxie fastback with a 390 and cruise o matic. but do i need to have a conversion or can i just install the shifter and ratchet shift????

On my 68 with c6 the bm pro ratchet came with the needed brackets and other than cutting the oem bracket off the trans (or removing it) it was a bolt in job.I just had to cut the curved part of the oem bracket to make room for the bm one.Removed about half of it which was easier than taking everything apart and removing the whole thing.All in all an easy job.
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so all i have to do is install it????

I don't know what your trans is like but in the first pic it shows what I had to cut off the lever and second shows what it looks like on a c6 when done.The universal pro ratchet I used comes with a bunch of different brackets for ford/chevy/mopar trans.

On my cruiso outta my 64 has the counsel shifter and starting from the bottom it goes from 1st to 3rd then 2nd. So how would hooking up a shift kit to it work would ya have skip 3rd then pull it down outta 2nd?

Sorry I have no idea how that would work - weird tranny you got though.
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well now i have 2 choices....ratchet or tri power???

On my 64 gal 390 with a cruiso with a counsel. If you were to put it in first then go to shift it into 2nd you would have jump 3rd. Unlike a c6 going from 1st 2nd 3rd. The cruiso is 1st 3rd 2nd. Confusing why ford did it like this. If i could figure out how to post pics i would take a picture of my counsel gear indicator and you could see what iam talking about.

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On 2004-03-05 22:45, 64PI wrote:
On my cruiso outta my 64 has the counsel shifter and starting from the bottom it goes from 1st to 3rd then 2nd. So how would hooking up a shift kit to it work would ya have skip 3rd then pull it down outta 2nd?
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Yer gonna have to run that one by me again......[img]/phpBB/images/smiles/icon_confused.gif[/img]

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He has the 'green dot' cruiso, so the gears are 2nd, D, L
D being the 'green dot'.

Deb

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