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For those of you that have done a 3" body lift on your LUV How did you cut out your floor so the shifters work.? Ive installed a body lift on my truck and this is the last thing I need to do. I have my own Ideas but Im curious to get more ideas. Does anyone have any pictures?? My idea is to cut them out and fit a piece of rubber that screws down to the hump. This is a wheeler project and doesnt need to be pretty it just needs to keep the mud out. Just looking for peoples $0.02.
Thanx

Yeah, I had to cut mine out. I used an aftermarket universal boot kit from autozone or pepboys. I put one on both shifters. One kit was bigger than the other. the kits were just a boot with a chrome piece to screw through into the floor. I am at work now but if you want some pics let me know and I'll send some later.

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1980 4x4 - Hunt'n truck 9yrs only seen pavement to the gas station. Gets a little spooked when it sees another vehicle.

This is the link to the boot I used.
http://www.autozone.com/selectedZip,731 ... ectZip.htm

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1980 4x4 - Hunt'n truck 9yrs only seen pavement to the gas station. Gets a little spooked when it sees another vehicle.

I used old inner tube material on mine. Cut the hole so that it shifts without hitting, cut a small hole in the center of the rubber, put a hose clamp down over the small shaft of the shifter, put on the rubber, hose clamp it to the shifter shaft from below, then cover the whole works with a generic shifter boot that sorta fits. I could never find a boot that wouldn't leak air past the shifter much less water, so the inner tube rubber makes the virtually water tight seal and I made it look good from above with a boot I made from and old denim jacket sleeve and mounting plate from shifter boot I had tried previously. Just be sure to leave plenty of slack in the rubber so the shifter can travel without getting pulled on. For a little extra sound deadening I put some synthetic batting in the upper boot above the rubber.

The hardest part was getting holes lined up for screws. With the cab floor, rubber, carpet, demin top boot, and mounting plate all needing to line up it was a bear to get it right. On the next one I'm thinking I will drill larger holes and glue/weld some captive nuts to the cab floor bottom at least at the four corners. It should be much easier than trying to line up a sheet metal screw through all those layers of stuff and get it to bite on the metal. If you lose the carpet that should be much easier.

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95 Isuzu Trooper Daily Driver
86 Isuzu Trooper reliable backup
77 LUV 2wd stock beltway blaster (resting)
79 4x4 LUV project: 2.6L, 5spd, 31s (eventually)

MEPR: Man, my 4x4 makes all other LUVs look good

I had a hodge podge setup on mine...cut the tranny tunnel to fit so I could shift (only for the tranny...didn't have to with the t-case shifter) and then used a generic rubber boot that was covered with a leather one from Napa....the new setup I'm going to use will be shifter boots off of a '88+ Trooper...another idea would be to use the shifter console out of a 4x4 Rodeo or Amigo...I need to look into it a bit more but it looks like it would work

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'80 Luv 4x4, 3" BL, 1.5" SL, 32/36, 2.25" exhaust...and fuzzy dice.
'95 Toyota 4Runner Limited 5-Speed.