2004R and column shift detents
 

So I have a LWB 1972 Custom Delux C10 with a 350 engine and worn out th350. A friend that does cross country races with junk cars offered me a th350 he had sitting in his shed that worked when he pulled it. Well, I got there and I look at it, and it's not a th350, it's a 2004r from a early 80's Monte Carlo SS. It even had a mechanical speedo out. I was pretty excited because I knew that was pretty much a direct swap for my th350, but for all my searching on here, I have one question I haven't been able to answer. I've never dissasembled an automatic column before so I don't know how the column shift mechanism and detents are setup and work. Do I need to change anything in the column for the 2004R? If I don't change anything in the column, is D the overdrive and then L2 and L1 are 3rd and 2nd gear with no way of manually shifting the tranny into first? Hope this makes sense :)

Re: 2004R and column shift detents
 

You hit it on the head. No need to change anything in column. Like you said, d is now overdrive, and so on. I can hit low on my 700r4 but my column is a little wore out. ;)

Re: 2004R and column shift detents
 

...with a different linkage, and the 4sp auto indicator for the column...would it work properly then, allowing access to all the gears?

I'm probably going with a floor shifter but just wondering...