200 4R Install Questions.

Looking at doing the 200-4R swap in the future, anyone here have this transmission with a column shift? I really enjoy the free room in the front seat. My car has the bench seat with the arm rest, and my daughter likes to sit in the middle when we go for cruises around the neighborhood. I am curious if there is a replacement indicator for the column so that it will indicate for 4th gear

I got one off another GM car, had to make some minor modifications to get it to fit, then I bought a long shifter rod and bent it until it shifted properly. Of course this was all done on a '59 Studebaker Silver Hawk (auto column) for my daughter but the method should be the same:


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This last pic is before I had finished sanding, grinding and painting. Once it was in the car no one could tell what I had done. The really, really hard part was making the detent bracket to make the shift arm (lever) fall into the correct positions to match the gears positions on the indicator.

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I installed a Chevy 350 with 2004R into the Silver Hawk and my daughter drives it to school everyday!!

Treblig