I am looking for a mint shift lever for a column shift tilt steering column. The part number is 408659. I believe the same lever is used in all Olds Cutlasses and Deltas from 1971 to 1975. It appears to be slightly longer than the non-tilt shift lever and has two minor bends in it. I have attached a picture. Thanks.

 

Well I learned something last night when I saw this post. I thought the non tilt & tilt shift levers were all the same. I checked some of my inventory & found that you are correct. I have a column shift tilt that came from a car that caught on fire & I compared a regular shift lever to the one on it & was surprised to see they are different. That one has the end melted off of it so I'm sure you don't want that one. I dug through my box of column levers & did find one from a tilt. It has some tiny pimples on the large part near the end so I doubt if you'd want this one either, but here are some pictures for anyone else that may have some of these.


The pictures show a regular shift lever next to the burnt up one, then next to the other one.

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/a...-26-11_902.jpg

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/a...-27-11_170.jpg

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/a...-29-53_878.jpg

http://i856.photobucket.com/albums/a...-31-01_108.jpg

 

Thanks for looking for the part and the picture comparisons. The tilt lever is longer than I thought, quite a difference in the two.
Hopefully something will turn up. At least Olds kept the same lever for a few more years and used it for the big cars as well.
PS - I always find it great to learn some new info on these old Oldses even though I've been at it for many years.

Brian

 

bumping thread, no luck yet.

 

So, by this post I can't swap my pitted 1971 Custom Cruiser gear selector for a nicer one from a 1977 Toronado (both with tilt column)? The toro does seem to be smaller, but I thought it'd still work in my column.

Thanks for any reply.

CCFan