Your trans is probably a low performance saginaw box with a 2 86 1 first gear.
Shift pattern of a 3 speed on the floor.
My 67 has one although i stayed with the column shift because i didn t want to hack up the floor.
Necessary to provide clearance for shifter and linkage to have free travel.
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This could be confusing to most 4 speed trained brains.
If your shift pattern has the park position.
Still need to hook my linkage up and install a shifter boot but otherwise shifter itself is installed.
Lever of shifter may be bent or cut off as necessary for clearance purposes.
The h pattern for manual transmissions was called this because a full shifting of gears resembles the letter h step 1.
Here is a demo of the shifter going through the gears.
The shifter is assembled at the factory to operate in a pattern that has park position where the stick is all the way forward.
Most 3 speeds were configured so that first gear in the shifter pattern was located where second gear was on a 4 speed.
As popular as the 86 ford f150 was and with how many came equipped with a 3 speed column shift i was surprised to find that no one sells a replacement.
Ok here s the problem.
So it sat for a while as i contemplated its fate.
The 3 speed h pattern gear shift on the column was standard equipment for many american made vehicles up to the mid 1970s.
Tried online tried auto shops and i even tried finding a yard to strip one but all searches came up goose eggs.
After that the gear shift on most cars moved to the floor.
I bought a hurst indy shifter for it.
Truck originally was a 3 on the tree which was broken when i got it.
I ve put a floor shift onto my 3 speed.