Hammy

Hey guys, so I got to work on the truck today got her more or les idling smooth and I tighter up that adjusting nut on the column shift. I have a question about my gear shift pattern. From what I can tell every single car and truck that had a 3 speed on the tree is, pull towards you and up is reverse and down is first. It seems that this is my second and third gears. Leaving the shift lever in the at rest position and going up is reverse and down is first. Is there something wrong here? I can’t seem to find any info about this in the B1/B2 service manual I have. (This is the first time driving the truck so it caught me by surprise with this shift pattern. Would probably also explain the grinding happening when I thought I was going into reverse in the normal pattern way)

Thanks for the information! Hopefully I'll get it figured out this weekend and I will give an update.

Hi everyone, I am a the recent (and lucky) owner of a 1950 B-2-B. It has the 3 speed fluid drive and I can not get it to go into reverse for the life of me. 1-3 work fine but when going into reverse it clunks and/or grinds when letting out on the clutch or even with the clutch fully disengaged. I have looked underneath to see if the linkages are adjustable like I saw in one of the posts here, but they are solid bars from end to end. Any advice would be appreciated. I plan on taking a deeper dive this upcoming weekend.