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    11/05/2021 6:50 PM  #1

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    Anybody ever heard of Bill Heeley ? trying to figure out how to get in touch with him. Gonna post on VMF they use to talk about him on there a lot. Needing my shifter rebuilt.
    1965 Mustang Top Loader 4 speed

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    11/05/2021 8:15 PM  #2

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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    Have you googled his name? There are many threads about him on many Ford and Mustang websites.
    I believe this is one of his Fleabay ads.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/154649481292?hash=item2401d3d04c:g:KZIAAOSwmr5fLYRJ
     

     

    11/05/2021 8:40 PM  #3

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    Texas! wrote:

    Have you googled his name? There are many threads about him on many Ford and Mustang websites.
    I believe this is one of his Fleabay ads.
    https://www.ebay.com/itm/154649481292?hash=item2401d3d04c:g:KZIAAOSwmr5fLYRJ
     

    Yes I googled and looked at a bunch of his threads and they all were old threads. Just wondered if anybody on here had a updated info on him. 

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    11/06/2021 6:12 AM  #4

    John Ha
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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    Is it the factory shifter or the Hurst shifter?  

    It's easy to rebuild yourself.  If it's the Hurst shifter, I saved the instructions from Toploader Heaven when I rebuilt my Toploader and Hurst shifter.  I prettied up the instructions a little and have since put them on my Google Drive page.  You can download them (this includes the transmission instructions - the shifter instructions are the last two documents) from:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17BHOnwkhJXGnwEE-Dko0Di1f56T68PHY?usp=sharing

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    11/06/2021 7:03 AM  #5

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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    Does that mean you are keeping the 4 speed?

    If this forum can't fix it, it isn't broke.
     

    11/06/2021 8:44 AM  #6

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    John Ha wrote:

    Is it the factory shifter or the Hurst shifter?  

    It's easy to rebuild yourself.  If it's the Hurst shifter, I saved the instructions from Toploader Heaven when I rebuilt my Toploader and Hurst shifter.  I prettied up the instructions a little and have since put them on my Google Drive page.  You can download them (this includes the transmission instructions - the shifter instructions are the last two documents) from:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17BHOnwkhJXGnwEE-Dko0Di1f56T68PHY?usp=sharing

    its a factory shifter
     

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    11/06/2021 8:49 AM  #7

    BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA
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    Re: Top Loader 4 Speed shifter rebuild

    wsinsle wrote:

    Does that mean you are keeping the 4 speed?

    just kind of wanting to get it shifting better till I can get the 5 speed in it.  I have drove my 66 with a auto then 5 speed it was like a different car and now driving the 65 with a 4 speed I believe I liked the auto better but no where near as much as the 5 speed. It seems lie the cars are a lot more fun with 5 speed hands down to me.

    Last edited by BILLY WALTON from GEORGIA (11/06/2021 8:50 AM)

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