1350 shifter pictures

[b24sho]

hello everyone, i have been searching for pictures of what some of you may have done to get by without having the correct shifter linkage after doing an electric to manual case swap. I posted a picture of the issue where my shifter lever is 2 inches from transfer case lever and in trying to make something work, i have also damaged the shifter bushing. i feel like i'm not making progress and looking for some much needed guidence or pictures of what some of you may have done.


thanks all for reading and hope some of you have some feedback.

Richard

 

[franklin2]

What trans transfer case combo do you have? I just bought a 1984 bronco II that had the toyo koyo 5 speed and the manual 1350 transfer case. The tranny was bad. I took a fm145 with the electric shift transfer case out of my 1986 ranger, and installed that in the Bronco. I didn't want the electric shift, so I unbolted the electric shift transfer from the fm145 and bolted on the manual 1350. I was sweating it, because I didn't know if the electric transfer case adapter on the back of the fm145 would have the threaded holes for the manual shifter, but it did, and it all bolted right in and hooked right up and works fine. That hardest part was getting the shifter knob off, so i could install the combo rubber boot and get rid of the single electric shift rubber boot for the shifter.

 

[b24sho]

its an 88 with the 5 speed fm145 with the provisions for the shifter to bolt directly to the transmission.

 

[franklin2]

It's not really the transmission, but a short adapter piece like the picture below. I am not sure why your shifter does not reach. I do know there is a lot of play in the two bolts that hold the shifter in place, you have to loosen and adjust these to make it shift through 2wd all the way to 4 low. But that doesn't explain why your shifter arm doesn't even reach. Have you taken pliers and pulled on the lever on the transfer case?

 

[Shran]

How are your local junkyard resources? You either need a different shifter, a different arm on the tcase side, or both. There are several shifter variants in the first and early second gen trucks and at least two tcase arms - a long one and a short one. It's best to pull everything from one truck so that you know it works but that is next to impossible sometimes these days.

 

[b24sho]

thanks guys, i hear that there are many different ones. i have searched but none of my junk yards had the right year and now that the state is on lock down i need to do something. I think i may have figured out enough for it to work. i took the shifter control lever and bent it to make it straight to line up with the lever on the transfercase. now that they align i added an additional 2" bracket. thanks for the help.