Trans boot leaks ?

[Pistol Gripper]

General question.  On wet roads, through puddles, fording streams,  you ever get water up through the hump and into the boot, carpet ?  I've had lots of cars with floor shifts, both factory and cobbled in from swaps from autos.  Don't ever recall getting water leaking in.  Got a friend converting a 58 Chebby from 3 on the tree to 4 on the floor and he's wanting to button it up pretty tight.  I suggested a boot upside down bolted under the pan and one over.  Think that's overkill ?

P.G.

[HP2]

Overkill. Unless your sitting in water deep enough to fill up to that point, you won't get enough moisture into the shifter location to make it a big deal. If the water is that deep, iti s going to be coming in other areas before the shifter becomes an issue. It isn't close enough to the wheels to get spray, it is behind the engine, which deflects spray, its up in a tunnel which restricts access, and it is next to the exhaust, which is hot and evaporates spray. Its a '58 chevy. Chances are he isn't going to be fording any hood deep streams with it.

[Pistol Gripper]

HP2,

Kinda the way I look at it, but wanted another opinion.

Thanks,

P.G.

[HP2]

I haven't read your tag line in a while. Horses patut. Now THAT is funny! 

[Pistol Gripper]

Yeah,

Some days I tolerate stupidity better than others.

 

P.G.