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03-05-2021, 12:02 AM | #41 |
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Re: Mitchell Overdrive
I made a sleeve out of Vinyl upholstery material to cover the cable shifter, and main shifter. The more I drive it, the more I love it. Have another ordered for another car.
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03-05-2021, 12:00 PM | #42 |
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I have seen where people mount the cable to the steering column. The cable does free up some leg room- but when I get the mitchell in the future I will choose to use a shifter. I have driven many cars with the shifter and I love it. Plus- you know where neutral is in the overdrive incase you want to utilize that.
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03-06-2021, 12:58 PM | #43 |
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I keep reading about the Mitchell shifter taking up leg room. I have had one for 15 years now in my Town Sedan....but it never gets in the way. I never seat three in the front seat, and don’t ever enter on the passenger side. I find it very natural and handy right where it is....but I guess it doesn’t work for some.
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03-06-2021, 01:18 PM | #44 | |
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03-06-2021, 03:26 PM | #45 |
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Paul Shinn made a video on installing an overdrive
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03-06-2021, 03:31 PM | #46 | |
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11-20-2023, 08:42 PM | #47 |
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Re: Mitchell Overdrive
I love my Mitchell in my 31 Tudor. I wish I had one in my 28 roadster but will have to wait a long time as they are back logged. I am on back log and suspect wait is 2 or more years.
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11-21-2023, 06:14 AM | #48 |
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I installed a Mitchell 26% Overdrive early this spring in our 1930 4-Dor Sedan along with the Mitchell syn transmission and am extremely pleased with both of them. Steve was great to work with and along with the help of friends from our Model A Club the install went well. I rebuilt my bell housing completely, brake pedal bushings/shaft etc. before installing the new transmission. I thought my rear pinion bearing and race was good but after taking out the old drive shaft and close inspection the decision was to replace both. My suggestion would be to have new one of both on hand when doing the install of the overdrive. I had to wait a week before new parts arrived and to get my help back. Another positive is that you can have a conversation @45 miles/hour very easily as the noise level it reduced at the lower RPM.
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11-21-2023, 09:13 AM | #49 | |
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Thankfully the waiting list isn't quite two years, though it is closer to 8-9 months. I left a pretty wordy post on why and how we are trying to close that gap on the forums a couple weeks back. I also improved our contact page to make joining the waiting list easier than ever. I haven't hit the minimum of ten posts to have links in my forum posts yet, so maybe an admin or other friendly fordbarner can help me out and post the link to the website contact page. I'm working a way for people to roughly check our current waiting list positions and depths in more real time so stay tuned. Blair Mitchell |
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11-21-2023, 10:52 AM | #50 | ||
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11-21-2023, 02:12 PM | #51 |
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Thank you!
(Now one post closer to being able to do this myself) -Blair |
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