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Originally Posted by Paul Y
Good evening Gentlemen,
Long time lurker and now new owner of a 66 shortbed.
I have a question with regards to shifter location on a TK600 trans. Truck currently has a sm420 4speed installed and I would like to use the original shifter position. If that is my aim should I order the trans with the shifter forward, in the middle or rearward.
I could go and measure this myself, problem is that the truck is currently 6000 miles from where I am...
So, I am sure that I am not alone in fitting a tk trans to C10, what have others done or have found to work out best.
Truck will retain bench seat if that makes a difference.
Thanks for the advice.
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Quite possibly might be apples to oranges but I replaced my SM420 with a TKO500 and only a front shift kit would have gotten the shifter to utilize the same hole. It is an expensive part so I chose to use the mid-shifter mount. It required a new hole but it is actually a much more serviceable location in the end. Using the rear shifter would have put the lever right against the seats as you can see in the pics. My builder put a couple nice burnished steel plates over the original holes (for tranny and trans brake) that fit the look and look like access hatches. It fits my build.
