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Old 04-10-13, 06:58 PM
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Ok so I got all of my wiring done and everything mechanically installed and for the life of me I can't get the gear slections to line up. I have tried the one inch shorter shift linkage and just the stock length shift linkage I either can't get the car into park or I cant get low to be actual low.

My only guess is I have a car with p r n d 2 l and my gated shifter mechanism has p r n d-4 3 2-l but shouldnt that still work as 3 would be 2 and 2l would be low
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ive always wondered the same thing,,u have two extra gears on the gated shifter , how do they line up
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Pretty sure it was a common snese thing I screwed up on but all the conversions I have seen seem to use the p r n 4-d 3 2-l shifters but if my old shifter was prnd32l then it should have only made sense to get the same
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well they recomend to get the 4321 so u can still keep the overdrive by wiring it into the 4-d

this is the reasoon i never bought one yet because im sure i was gonna run into these issues.
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Your shifter says D (5), 4, 3, 2, L but your automatic transmission doesn't have 5 gears. Because of placement your D remains the same but when you select 4 you are actually in 3rd (assuming you wired it right) and 3 becomes 2, 2 becomes L, so L on the shifter has nothing left to map too. If you want perfect labeling you'll need to source a SC300 gated shifter assembly.
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Ahh See nobody ever said that in any of the write ups. So I did have it hooked up and operating properly last night.

can anyone confirm if overdrive would still work the same way on the SC300 shift? If that install work 100% correctly I would be inclined to do that

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If you wired it up correctly D remains D. When you go into 4th on the shifter O/D OFF should turn on.

FYI I'm selling a sc300 gated shifter with linkage.
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yeah my 4 turned O/D off and D turned it back on

I was talking about on the SC300 gated shifter would 3 remain O/D off and D be O/D on
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Ok I know this isn't really the point of the thread by whats the point in doin this conversion?

Why is the gated shifter so much better?
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