Post by crawl4yourlife on Jan 28, 2018 11:53:52 GMT -6
Something I didn't like about the buggy from the beginning was the fact that my gear shift would crash with the extreme low range shifter if I was in extreme low and need to go in reverse. If you are working an obstacle requiring some back and forth to negotiate and needing wicked low range, constantly having to shift out of wicked low to grab reverse and then back into wicked low to go forward again is a pain.....and a long reach.
When you aren't made of money you do what you can to remedy the situation. i had talked to guy on pirate who makes triple shifters but mine would be the reverse of what he makes since I wanted to keep my shifters in the rear location. What he makes move the shifters forward, mainly for folks who are trying to keep a console in place or are using a bench seat in a full bodied rig. And in order for him to make what I wanted.......was going to cost me, in his words, well over $500......uhhhh.....no......
A friend of mpdextreme gave me a twin stick for a chain driven Toyota case. I had a fairlead from my winch that I'm not using......I had a friend who I used to work with burn me a plate on a laser in order to mount the shifter
I modified it since I didn't need the two sticks to operate independently. The same guy who burned the mounting plate burned me 4 round slugs as well so I could use pins/cotter keys to connect everything when done. I bought mini rod ends and a pc of tubing for the linkage
I bought a second fairlead to use to mount it
I took the problem shift lever out of the equation
Cut the ends off of the twin stick that go inside the case (the hourglass looking things) and had them welded to two of the slugs the guy burned for me
Then had that welded to the stub of the shifter and did more test fitting
Once the test fitting was done, cut the stub off as far as I could, painted everything and.......
Problem solved, problem staying solved for nowhere near $500+. Of course the pirate guy was going to design it to where the 3 shifters would have all been grouped together but my ghetto fabulous design gets the job done just fine.
When you aren't made of money you do what you can to remedy the situation. i had talked to guy on pirate who makes triple shifters but mine would be the reverse of what he makes since I wanted to keep my shifters in the rear location. What he makes move the shifters forward, mainly for folks who are trying to keep a console in place or are using a bench seat in a full bodied rig. And in order for him to make what I wanted.......was going to cost me, in his words, well over $500......uhhhh.....no......
A friend of mpdextreme gave me a twin stick for a chain driven Toyota case. I had a fairlead from my winch that I'm not using......I had a friend who I used to work with burn me a plate on a laser in order to mount the shifter
I modified it since I didn't need the two sticks to operate independently. The same guy who burned the mounting plate burned me 4 round slugs as well so I could use pins/cotter keys to connect everything when done. I bought mini rod ends and a pc of tubing for the linkage
I bought a second fairlead to use to mount it
I took the problem shift lever out of the equation
Cut the ends off of the twin stick that go inside the case (the hourglass looking things) and had them welded to two of the slugs the guy burned for me
Then had that welded to the stub of the shifter and did more test fitting
Once the test fitting was done, cut the stub off as far as I could, painted everything and.......
Problem solved, problem staying solved for nowhere near $500+. Of course the pirate guy was going to design it to where the 3 shifters would have all been grouped together but my ghetto fabulous design gets the job done just fine.