Hot Rods Powerglide shifter

is the shift lever on this powerglide set up for a floor mounted shifter or column mounted?
If it is column, is it easily adapted to floor shift without pulling the trans apart?
It faces down in park. Correction, that is neutral in top photo.



This photo shows the shifter all the way forward in park which leads me to believe it was originally a column shift

 

I looked at the 62 corvette ***embly Manual, which was the first car to use the aluminum PG, and it had a floor shifter, and the diagram shows the lever going UP from the pivot. So I think you're right, it's column shift.

 

I knew you would respond to this thread, my go to all things Chevy guy

 

thanks

Are there aftermarket levers for aftermarket cable type shifters? Might be for that, also?

 

Trans came with a fancy aftermarket pan with a drain plug, I'll ask my cousin (my trans guy) if I can get to it by pulling the pan and valve body and if i can turn it 180 degrees or if i need to use a totally different shift lever.

I might have another plan, I'll let you know if it works

 

...but did the Corvettes with aluminum Power glides have a backwards shift pattern? I believe that the earier ones with cast iron 'glides did.

 

Shift pattern was normal in 62. The early ones had R at the other side of L, was the difference. I think this ended around 57-58

 

That lever looks like for a aftermarket shifter. You won't be able to rotate 180 degrees. You won't have to remove the valve body to change out the shift lever. It is also missing the kickdown lever. Is there a hole going through the shift lever?

 

This is a 63 Impala floor shifted transmission.

 

Note that there's a notch in the lever, to clear the band adjusting screw...which is why you can't just flip the lever over and have it work.

 

Just make a lever that bolts on thru the hole and hugs the existing one.

No throttle valve/kick-down, may indicate some other mods to the insides.

 

Yes, I didn't see that. The lever is the throttle pressure lever. If you do not have it connected the transmission will shift into high gear at 20 mph or so regardless of throttle position. The powerglide is unique in that the modulator only controls operating pressure while the throttle lever controls shift points.

 

Automad. Shifters,,
In 1960,I put a Olds Rocket 88 w Hydramatic in to my Henry J.
At the time,not very many Auto****** floor shifter kits around{ most still though of autotranys as Grandma ******s.}
As a teen with tiny piggy bank,I designed an made my own floorshifter.
Many years later,I redesign***** a alum Powerglide,for racing in a latemodel mod stock car on black top oval [ close to 700 HP ]< as soon as I stopped racing,a new rule showed up; No auto ******s of any kind . They really hated my design,gave me 2 to 4 car jump on every restart as long as space was ahead;ZERO time from low to high{ Do not shift in a turn on gas.> Don't ask . Made my own floor shifter again { pretty much same design,I had done in 1960 }even though lots of kits around by then.. Shift stick loaded by spring to the right=would hold in notchs at floor,so stayed in gear. Pretty simple..

 

you could make one like this old tp shifter

 

That was my thought, just fabricate a simple bracket that bolts to the existing lever and you can make it point in any direction you want.

 

mid 60s chevelle impala floor shift.