Shift boot under or over carpet?

[bjde0b]

Does anyone have a photo of original carpet and a floor shift boot. Is the boot screwed on over the carpet, cut around the square section and screwed under the carpet or trimed around the circle section and screwed down?

[fordman]

the boot will sit directly on the metal hump. then the carpet over that. the trim ring holds the carpet in place

[bjde0b]

hmmm. The truck I found the boot in didn't have a trim ring.

[70_F100]

I might be wrong, but I don't think they used a trim ring on bumps, just on dents.

Two ways to think about it. Screw it to the floor, cut the carpet to go around it, and there's a chance the carpet will unravel. Screw it on top of the carpet, and it eliminates carpet unravelling.

I'm going with the latter on mine, since the factory boot has a reinforcement plate molded in. Use black oxide screws, and it should look just fine.

[bjde0b]

I think I agree. The truck I took it out of had rubber floor mat and I think it was on top. That was two years ago so hard to remember.

[robroy]

Good morning,

While putting this together on my truck a few weeks ago I chose to put the rubber boot on top of the floor mat.

I thought it over and realized that this way, not only would the hole I cut in the floor mat be completely guaranteed to be hidden, but this way it's possible to remove the boot to access the shift cane assembly without disturbing the carpet/mat at all. If the rubber boot is fastened in place under the carpet/mat, then the carpet/mat could be in the way of removing the shift cane in the future, if you ever want to.

Robroy

[fordman]

you guys maybe right. i have removed so many dentside boots that i may have thought of the trim right from doing that. i havent ever seena manual floor shift with carpet. so maybe that is the way it goes is on top of the carpet.