"MacGyver" Shifter completed
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From: Summerville SC
"MacGyver" Shifter completed
After some modifications I managed to achiev 2mm of for/aft play measured at the top of the shifter and spring loaded in the 2/3 plane plus it looks stock.
I removed the front shift ball on the torque tube and fabricated a replacement that was the size measured in a new angular joint. I was going to use a spherical rod end and a universal joint for the rear coupler but I didn't want to increase noise if I could see a way around this. On the rear coupler I fabricated new bushings to fit the joint pin. My shifter was already altered to lower the shift arc angle to 16 degrees to 1,3,5 and 16 degrees to R,2,4 from neutral. For the spring load to the 2/3 plane I used a stock 80 MY spring and reversed it to the oppsite end of the shift shaft and used a clamping sleve to attach it. The system as a whole seems much improved,(by seat of the pants testing done while on the floor)and still maintains the noise isolation joints.
I removed the front shift ball on the torque tube and fabricated a replacement that was the size measured in a new angular joint. I was going to use a spherical rod end and a universal joint for the rear coupler but I didn't want to increase noise if I could see a way around this. On the rear coupler I fabricated new bushings to fit the joint pin. My shifter was already altered to lower the shift arc angle to 16 degrees to 1,3,5 and 16 degrees to R,2,4 from neutral. For the spring load to the 2/3 plane I used a stock 80 MY spring and reversed it to the oppsite end of the shift shaft and used a clamping sleve to attach it. The system as a whole seems much improved,(by seat of the pants testing done while on the floor)and still maintains the noise isolation joints.
