3 On The Tree Or 4 On The Floor

This is the most common transmission on vehicles from the late 1930s through the late 1960 s but could be found on vehicles as late as the 1980 s.

3 on the tree or 4 on the floor. A manual transmission with 3 gears and reverse that is located on the steering column. 3 on the tree gear levers were made for the days when a family was around 6 or 7 people and were put up on the steering column so a bench seat could be fitted in the front of the car. The three on the tree column mounted manual transmission shifter was for a very long time the most common setup in american motor vehicles. In a way that means that understanding these numbers will help us understand something that goes beyond our universe.

My 1941 plymouth special deluxe came with one and. Converting 3 on the tree to floor shift 09 28 04 09 43 pm post 519486 in response to budnate just jack the car right up and chock it well you dont need to grind any of the floor out. I like it on the tree and on the floor depends on the vehicle for me. From june 1978 to june 1979 i owned a well used 1966 plymouth belvedere ii with good old 3 on the tree and oil buring leaking slant i 6 under the hood.

Floor shift always whether 3 or 4 speed or 5 or 6. These days few cars have more than 4 or 5 in a family so bucket seats are fitted to the front of the car for more comfort and looks. I got the mr gasket set and a b m shifter universal cable for th400 the hole only needs to be bigger than the biggest diameter on the cable. If you put it on the floor and don t have a 4 speed 3 on the floor sounds stupid.

Tree 3 dwarfs big numbers like graham s number. There is a godly quality to the study of big numbers. 03 18 09 03 07 pm post 1654748 hey guys im thinking about getting a 67 elky with a 283 and what seems like a 3 on the tree manual transmission. Big numbers like graham s number are impossibly big bigger than our universe.

Are these trannys junk and is there any way to convert it to a floor shifter or put a 4 speed in it.