I am wanting to install a "T-handle" style shifter in my 85 IROC. I LOVE the look of the stock TA shifter but I need to know what parts to aquire to make the swap. Can I get away with just changing the **** or do I have to replace the entire assembly?

 

Can't see why you can't just change the ****.

 

You need the entire shifter, they aren't the same. The good news is it is a simple swap.

 

The shifter **** itself is interchangeable. There is a staple type clip in the front part of the ****. Remove it with a screwdriver, then pull the **** off. Reverse the process with the T/A shifter ****.

 

Yep,very easy.I had an ugly camaro one in mine with the button on top of the shifter.Like said above just take out the little staple style clip in the front of the handle pull the old one off and put the new one on.

 

I know with my 85 iroc the shift **** isnt held on by any staple clips. My 86 and both my 94's were. So you might just want to pick up a whole shifter assmbly off a t/a.

Bryan

 

I replaced my T-handle **** with a camaro top button shifter on my Formula. It was a direct swap, took all of 30 seconds with a small screwdriver to pull the little clip out of the front of the handle.

I have a shifter and t-handle from a Firebird if you need to replace both units.

 

I just looked at the shifter I have now and I don't see a retainer clip on it so I guess I'll have to replace the whole assembly. Zepher, do you have a pic of the shifter and handle?

 

Sweet, so its not just me.

 

I can get you a pic later on tonight. It's a stock one out of a 92 Firebird that my friend and I stripped.

 

Will these pictures help? the first one is the newer style that has the "U" shaped clip holding the **** on and the second picture is the old style ****. Like morley said, if you want to use the new style **** it would be best to swap in the whole shifter assembly. It can be done and the shifter assembly from a trans am will fit and work in an Iroc. I know because I have one from an 86 trans am in my Iroc.

 

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Does anyone have a tech article that gives a play-by-play of how to swap the shifters?

 

Four mount bolts and two cables plus adjusting the park/neutral switch afterwards and that is it.

 

Sounds WAY too easy...

 

Just look at the pictures in my previous post to this thread.