Miatav8,MstrASE,A&P,F wrote:
Do you have a plasma cutter? Here is an option or you can first cut away whatever parts of the blue box interfere with a more direct shift linkage, then address or you may be able to leave it. New 15mm tube for the linkage would be easier and just reuse the ends so the toyota bushes will fit. More work and expense would be to use a short morse cable.
If the trans cooler line is also in the way with the odd bend around the switch, part stores ususally stock new lines with the fittings installed in various lengths to be bent by hand. The line does not need to kick up, and can go down and out along the pan rail.
You could actually remove the vertical support and crossmember/trans mount for a removable but that can be down the road if you want to tackle it. I find myself going back to things I did years ago and redesigning.
Thanks mate, I did originally want to run the shifter rod exactly as you've shown but didn't want to cut anything away. A removable trans mount is a very good idea which I'd love to put in at some time in the future... maybe when it gets manual converted
For now the shift rod clears everything and looks like it should work in a pinch.
Back in... DECEMBER!? Wow, just checked the date on the picture, didn't know it was that long ago... Anyway, I created two of these monstrosities.
I finally had some time to weld them up
One has come out at 90 degrees but the other shrank down to maybe 88, I'll have to see if I can bash it back a little, or if a bit more grinding of the inside of the bend releases some of the tension and it opens back up.
For future tight bends I'll try to make them from 4 pieces of 1.6mm sheet steel, I think this method is more suited to a large radius bend where there are fewer cuts.
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