'39 shifter?

[DeeGee]

I've tried to search but no luck.

Can the shifter be removed without removing the shifter housing?

Pictures or video would be cool.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ken/Alabama]

Yep, unscrew the cap at the base of the shifter at the top of the shifter housing and remove the pin and pull the shifter up.

 

[rotorwrench]

Just don't drop the pin in there.

 

[DeeGee]

Is it easy to put back?

The reason I ask is because I want to do steel floorboards and don't want to try threading the needle when I remove the body.

Full fender '30 coupe. Flathead 8 and '40 rear.

 

[Newc]

Yes,but tape up to shifter hole while working. Newc

 

[Mac VP]

Put the trans in neutral. Unscrew the round cap where the lever goes into the shifter housing tower. You can lift the lever straight up and out of the tower. Watch the little pin that passes through the right hand side of the tower where the cap threads are. When the lever is out you'll want to push the pin out (from inside to outside). Save it to reinstall later. The lever will drop right back in place.......if you drop it in oriented the same way in regards to the pin hole lining up with the slot in the shifter lever.....and nobody has somehow shifted the gears in the meantime. Push the pin back in and screw the cap back down.

 

[JM 35 Sedan]

If you remove the thin flat steel washer, the leather washer/gasket, the spring, and the larger cupped washer from the shift lever, make sure you remember how those parts go back on the lever.
Also, sometimes it gets a little difficult to overcome the spring pressure as you thread the cap back on the top of the shifter housing tower.

 

[DeeGee]

Thanks again.

I really like the knowledge here and the quick responses from each of you.

I don't know yet who runs this place but would like to thank them for it.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

And in case of anything stuck, note that the bottom of the cap has a pair of subtle, nearly invisible, wrench flats that can be engaged by careful use of a monkey wrench.