Dedicated Day 2 Thread

[Salvatore]

Yes, Bieber Shifters, Doylestown, Pa. 20 minutes from me and 20 minutes from the old Hurst. Those were the days!

[Atuckman]

i dont have the IQ to figure out how it works.
what was the advantage of using one?

[Salvatore]

good question! I think you just pulled the levers straight and not in an H pattern for faster shifts. maybe one lever for first/second the other for 3rd/4th? Would assume the instruction sheet has the answer to that question BUT never used on. I just remember they used to have these set up on the transmissions in the local speed shops in our area. WOW, has time flown by!

[John Brown]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: [email protected]</div><div class="ubbcode-body">good question! I think you just pulled the levers straight and not in an H pattern for faster shifts. maybe one lever for first/second the other for 3rd/4th?</div></div>

RE the Bieber shifter;

The handle closest to the driver when pulled straight back shifts the trans up one gear. Release the lever, pull back again and you go up another gear. Keep going till you have shifted through all of the gears, then one more pull and you're back to neutral. If you want to downshift, you pull the handle on the right. If you want reverse, you have to be in neutral first, then put the trans in reverse using the lever with the round black knob. The large round wheel looking affair has an oddly shaped cam groove on the side away from the camera that moves rollers attached to the transmission shift arms that make the shift arms move to determine what gear you are in. Kinda neat for late 60's technology. Last night I asked a friend if he still has the one he had in his 57 Nomad but he has no idea where it might be. He is a major hoarder/collector/junk dealer, but if he still has it, it could be in any of his many warehouses full of <span style="font-style: italic">inventory</span>.

[Salvatore]

a ratchet style of shifting?

[John Brown]

Yep, it's a racheting shifter. No way it can miss as long as you just pull back once for each gear change. The 57 Nomad was a F Gas car with a 10,000 rpm plus 287 inch engine, so the Bieber shifter eliminated the possibility of not having the gear changes happen. That could have been catastrophic.

[Salvatore]

My buddies ran a G/MP or F/G, 57 wagon back in the 70's-early 80's. 288 cubes 50 lb. flywheel, Nash 4 speed with a 3.00 first gear with a 6.17 ring and pinnion. Set the record in G/MP at Suffolk, Virginia around 1976 or so at 11.33. Don't think the Bieber really caught on around here but Modified Eliminator did.