Floor shift manual backup light switch ???

[starlightchamp]

We have 3 speed floor shift top loader (no linkage) transmission in our 57 silver hawk We are restoring;
1) can someone tell us how to identify it.
2) How do you hook up backup lights to a top loading tranny.
Happy New Year,
Dick Curtis

[StudeRich]

Well that depends Dick, on what top loader you are talking about. If it's a late model Ford or Dodge, they usually have a switch location built in somewhere.

If it is a Stude. Borg Warner T-90 or <s>T-85</s> T-86 with a '37 Stude. car or a Truck or Jeep top (shifter) cover, there would be almost no way to activate the switch short of some kind of crude homemade floor mounted switch sticking up 4 or more inches above the floor that MIGHT hit the lever at the right place?

Update: Correction, I meant T-86, which of course would be almost identical to a T-90

StudeRich

[289stude]

You may have to run a switch at the top of your shifter to activate manualy when in reverse.

John

62' Deluxe R2 4SPD.

63' R1 Wagonaire

57' Transtar 259 punched to 312 NP540 4:09 TT Under Construction

58' 3E6D Stock

64' (Studebaker Built) Trailer Toter

[mbstude]

Toggle switch on the dash? That's what Dad's '56 two door has..

[Transtar60]

There are aftermarket switches that can be screwed into the shift cover of top loader type transmissions. They go into the "tunnels" on top of the cover plate. You may have to tap the hole after removing the small expansion plug filling the hole. The internal shift rod contacts the switch. You just have to figure out which end of the cavity the switch needs to go into.

http://www.lokar.com/interior_pages/...-switch-fs.jpg


Jeep used similar switches in transfer cases to indicate a shift into 4wd on Jeep J-series trucks and Wagoneers.

Your transmission cannot be a T-85/T89C as those have side covers, not top.


3E38
4E2
4E28
5E13
7E7
8E7
8E12
8E28

59 Lark
etc

[studebakerkid]

The borgwarner T86 toploader is what my Gibson uses for a transmission. There is no provision for a backuplight switch. I would fiund a good location and mount a toggle switch like I did with my tractor.

If you car is ugly then it better be fast.....

65 2dr sedan
64 2dr sedan (Pinkie)
61 V8 Tcab
61 Tcab 20R powered
55 Commander Wagon
54 Champion Wagon
46 Gibson Model A
50 JD MC

[r1lark]

quote:Originally posted by studebakerkid

The borgwarner T86 toploader is what my Gibson uses for a transmission. There is no provision for a backuplight switch. I would fiund a good location and mount a toggle switch like I did with my tractor.

If you car is ugly then it better be fast.....

65 2dr sedan
64 2dr sedan (Pinkie)
61 V8 Tcab
61 Tcab 20R powered
55 Commander Wagon
54 Champion Wagon
46 Gibson Model A
50 JD MC

Randall,

I know that many Gibsons used the smaller T96 B-W transmission. What models used the bigger T86?

Paul
Winston-Salem, NC
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[starlightchamp]

Put in a rocker switch today for backup lights.
Thanks all
....Dick