djohan
03-28-2005, 06:11 PM
Howdy...
I've got a '67 lemans with a chev. 350 with a 4-speed and a B&M shifter. Soon after getting the car, I had a shop go through the brakes and check the hoses and belts under the hood. I had picked up an OEM Hurst shifter in Ebay and asked the mechanic to pull the B&M and put in the Hurst. It looks like a really tight place to work between the exhaust pipes, but what the heck. When I got the car back, the machanic said that the way the motor had been installed in the Lemans, that the shifter is sitting too far forward for my Hurst shifter to clear the dash. Certainly the B&M has a much more severe backwards bend to the shift arm, but I'm wondering now if the guy just didn't want to do the work. The B&M sits right in the middle of the cut-out hole in the floor pan when the car is in neutral, and the Hurst has to go through the same hole, so I don't really see the problem. What do you folks think?
I've got a '67 lemans with a chev. 350 with a 4-speed and a B&M shifter. Soon after getting the car, I had a shop go through the brakes and check the hoses and belts under the hood. I had picked up an OEM Hurst shifter in Ebay and asked the mechanic to pull the B&M and put in the Hurst. It looks like a really tight place to work between the exhaust pipes, but what the heck. When I got the car back, the machanic said that the way the motor had been installed in the Lemans, that the shifter is sitting too far forward for my Hurst shifter to clear the dash. Certainly the B&M has a much more severe backwards bend to the shift arm, but I'm wondering now if the guy just didn't want to do the work. The B&M sits right in the middle of the cut-out hole in the floor pan when the car is in neutral, and the Hurst has to go through the same hole, so I don't really see the problem. What do you folks think?