F150 SHIFTER INSTALL

[Backin15]

I love it! Wish it had been a factory option.

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[sunglint]

This has some interesting facets, as I have discovered a safety issue with the rotary shifter. Twice now, while reaching down near my right leg, I have bumped the shifter from D to R. It's quite disconcerting when your car suddenly slows and starts reversing. Not having an interlock is a significant omission. I'd rather have to "lift the ring" or something like that, I feel like it is far too easy to inadvertently change.

 

[papaacer]

Dude that looks like shit!!

Lmao thanks for the heads up. I’m well aware. Hence why it’s a “work in progress” The only post in here documenting this mod shows none of the bad and only the good because the guy failed to post a solid write up on the install. He literally just said “it works!” And didn’t show any of the issues with the install that I’m facing and none of the bad parts of how it can look. His posts don’t even show the console as a whole at the start like I am.

 

[Billzilla15]

I left the maverick platform for a lightning and we are retrofitting the dial shifter in because the fold flat shifter is so problematic and is leaving us stranded. Like just putting the truck in park at a light and getting stuck needing a tow. So I say proceed with caution it's Alot of work and cutting to make a problematic part work

 

[Billzilla15]

I left the maverick platform for a lightning and we are retrofitting the dial shifter in because the fold flat shifter is so problematic and is leaving us stranded. Like just putting the truck in park at a light and getting stuck needing a tow. So I say proceed with caution it's Alot of work and cutting to make a problematic part work

 

[papaacer]

Alright, so I’m actually gonna revert back to OEM and do the paddle shifters. Found an OEM console on eBay. Genuinely yall it’s not worth it if you don’t have the time or tools. It’s NOT a straightforward modification by any means and the fact that Ivan didn’t say that off the bat is really frustrating. Luckily I won’t be out TOO much money but I’m out $130 for the shifter and $160 for the new console. So it’s a decent chunk of change. Can it be done? Sure. Will it look good? Maybe. Is it worth it? Depends on how much you hate the dial shifter and are willing to spend on fabricating for parts that aren’t there. I plan on making a detailed video and updating the original post for people to really see everything that it entailed. Oh well, can only keep moving forward!

 

[papaacer]

Way to be the better man . That’s one more clown on my ignore list.
Thank you for your contributions and for having the nerve to try something most of the clowns on here would never have the nerve to attempt anyway. They just can’t help chime in their hateful useless idiotic nonsense to impress their equally clowny counterparts acting like this is their instagram instead of an informational forum to HELP others. Mahalo and Aloha

I appreciate it brother! It’s sad because I’m already bummed that it’s money down the drain and I’m just trying to help people out and I keep getting negative comments instead of help ya know? I posted this thread to help people and possibly get some feedback to try and make it better but with the comments I keep getting, nothing is helping so back to OEM I go.

Which is fine too. I agree it looks bad. I just needed some new ideas to try and help fix it. But I don’t have the fabrication tools to do it right now. And I’m truck driving again so I don’t have the crazy amount of extra time that I used to either so I’d rather go back to stock and do paddles shifters!

 

[Hot Runr Guy]

@papaacer Looking forward to your paddle shifter install. It's the one feature I really miss on mine.

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[papaacer]

@papaacer Looking forward to your paddle shifter install. It's the one feature I really miss on mine.

HRG

Appreciate it brother! I’m excited to do it myself. Glad to hear people genuinely love that modification!

 

[papaacer]

It’s so interesting the amount of polarity there is with the shifters in the Ford scene right now. So many different views but that’s the beauty of modifying. You get to make it work for YOU! Such beauty in that

 

[710-oil-614]

This has some interesting facets, as I have discovered a safety issue with the rotary shifter. Twice now, while reaching down near my right leg, I have bumped the shifter from D to R. It's quite disconcerting when your car suddenly slows and starts reversing. Not having an interlock is a significant omission. I'd rather have to "lift the ring" or something like that, I feel like it is far too easy to inadvertently change.

That's a hell of a bump there.

 

[710-oil-614]

Way to be the better man .
That’s one more clown on my ignore list.

LOL again - couldn't help yourself! Just let the OPs be the better person. Don't come in here and passive aggressively and indirectly put the offending member down.

All you've done is stoop to their level and doubled the number of clowns in the thread.

 

[papaacer]

That's a hell of a bump there.

So you’d think brother! Lol but with him! I’m 6’3 with more leg than torso and the amount of times that’s happened to me as well was another reason I wish this had worked out lol. It’s usually at very low speeds though when my legs are still shifting around pun intended lmao. Never happens to me once I’m at freeway speeds.

 

[710-oil-614]

So you’d think brother! Lol but with him! I’m 6’3 with more leg than torso and the amount of times that’s happened to me as well was another reason I wish this had worked out lol. It’s usually at very low speeds though when my legs are still shifting around pun intended lmao. Never happens to me once I’m at freeway speeds.

I'm 6'1+ and sit closer than most folks my size to the wheel so my legs splay out and into the center console area - which is one reason I like the rotary dial as opposed to a physical shifter that would take up space.

My problem is with the rotary dial (seems worse in my 2025) is that I will overshoot R when attempting to back up and end up in P, but that's a minor thing.

 

[papaacer]

I'm 6'1+ and sit closer than most folks my size to the wheel so my legs splay out and into the center console area - which is one reason I like the rotary dial as opposed to a physical shifter that would take up space.

My problem is with the rotary dial (seems worse in my 2025) is that I will overshoot R when attempting to back up and end up in P, but that's a minor thing.

goodness yeah that happens to me a lot more than I’d care to admit Very minor but it never seems minor the moment it happens lol

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