13.After you drill your hole, you can make a second if you want for durability if you wish. If not one should be good enough. All you need to do is get your bolt and tighten it down. Once you do this make sure and test to see if your unit is planted in place. If not making a second hole in the frame might be a good idea.
14.Alright, you completed the first half of the install, it’s up to you if you want to take a break or not at this point since it’s not going to be too difficult from here. Moving on, given if you manage to get your hands on the column shifter bezel from a police package charger or manage to find one you’ll need to remove the steering wheel in order to swap them out. If you have a different means of making this happen (meaning using your current one and make a hole yourself) then you don’t have to remove the steering wheel.
15.Now you should have a sturdy column shifter ready to go, like I said again make sure to test it to see if everything is planted in place and not going anywhere. You can even hook up the harnesses if you want to take it a bit further with testing.
16.Next up, we need to remove the floor shifter cable and swap it out with the column shifter one. Believe me the floor cable will not work with the column shifter I can guarantee that. Swapping them out is not difficult at all. Just elevate the car up on jack stands or you can use ramps if you wish. Open the hood and you will see the shifter cable come out through the firewall of the vehicle. All that you need to do is pull it out. It will take some force but the rubber seal will come out and the shifter cable will be free.
17.Going underneath the car, next to the oil pan you’ll find the pin where the end of the shifter cable along with the lever I was talking about earlier. All you’ll need to do is use a flat head screw driver and pop out the shifter cable. After that just remove the two 13mm bolts that hold the shifter cable in place.
18.After that, just remove the cable from the vehicle. To install the new one just reverse step 17 and 16. It should be pretty much swap and play.
19.Alright, after bringing in the shifter cable through the firewall the tricky part is to connect it to the silver ball that’s located at the bottom of the unit. It’ll take some force but should snap on into place. Once you do this, you can now test and see if everything is working correctly. You’ll feel that when you shift in reverse it should be where it’s at when you had the floor shifter. Same thing for neutral and Drive along with Park. If you want just put the car in reverse if you have the vehicle on the ramps and see if the vehicle backs up like it’s suppose to or if you have the vehicle on jacks just lower and remove jacks and test the vehicle to make sure it’s doing what it’s suppose to.
20.After testing everything out you should be all ready to go. Just put everything back together and you have yourself a column shifter. It may feel a little weird at first not having anything in the center in front of the cup holders but you’ll get use to and enjoy some extra space for anything you need it for.
