I know a few of you are running 68-72 Novas. I have a questiong about converting my brother's 69 from PG to TH350.

We've got the TH350 up in the car and all bolted up and everything. The problem we're having is with the column shift linkage. We've tried linkages from both the 75+ Nova we took the trans from, and my old linkage from the 70 Malibu (original TH350 car). And none of them work right. Both stick out too far when attached to the trans and the bottom rod hits the subframe rail. I'm aware that there's a hole in the subframe rail, but neither linkage has the right geometry for the bottom rod to go into the hole. The linkage from the 75+ Nova had the right geometry for that car, but its just not happening on the 69.

Is the linkage a 68-72 only part? or 68-74?

This is the last part we need to get this thing down on the pavement again.

Thanks to our street rod brethren there is a solution from the aftermarket. Lockar (sp?) makes what you are looking for. If you cannot find one and you want to put it together this weekend then come on down to Garden Grove - I have a new in box Lockarlinkage in my garage.

Thomas

Thomas, is it one of these? http://www.lokar.com/interior_pages/colshiftlink.htm

Oh yeah, If you could email me about it....

Find the linkage from a 74 or older with the TH350. I currently have two novas (69 and 71) and was big into novas before chevelles, probably had 50 of em. I did many glide to TH350 swaps but most of them I went to a floor ratchet shifter. I only remember keeping the column shifter in a couple of them.