Transmission enquiry....

[Bob Carriere]

Well it was a cold rainy/snowy day....so Grant and I stayed inside the barn with the furnace blasting away..... must be getting soft...

So we tackled taking the tranny shift tower apart.....

Now for my questions.....

why do cab 12.... and maybe cab 11 have a longer shift lever....

Measured from the first bend in the shifter to the threade part of the shift knob is approx 15 inches on the arlier model and ONLY 10 inches on the cab 13....??

See the picture..... the first tower came from my cab 11... it is short like a cab 13 and instead of being angled forward it is mounted backwards....... shifting still worked fine BUT they was no longer any lock for the reverse gear......

I will tranplant the longer shaft from the spare 12 into my cab 11.

Parts washed out nicely.

Was there any kind of leather boot or rubber boot to keep dirt from entering the tower and tranny???