custom center console - how to raise the 4WD selector
 

he guys,

I want to build a custom center console for our Suburban.

But that would "hide" the 2-4WD-HI-LO selector if I dont raise it.

I looked under the car, but dont immediately had a brught idea how to change the linkage to make sure it still works afterwards.

Anybody done this yet?

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Extend the shaft itself
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thanks, but that will take up a lot of room in the console, since the extended arm will make the shifter travel more.

I might just hide it and make a door so I can access it whenever I need it. Dont use it that much

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You could always make another shaft with a pivot in the console and attach it with a wrist pin to the original shaft. It'll reverse the shift pattern but will have the same throw.
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thanks man!

I was more looking for either proven custom solutions or some after market stuff.

was hoping to find other 4WD drivers that made a center console

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You could adapt the GMT-400 style shifter that bolts to the driver's side of the hump to your truck. A friend of mine put a square body transfer case in his GMT-400 for his SAS and built a z-bar type pivot that bolted across the trans/tcase adapter which allowed him to shift the tcase from the other side of the tunnel.

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keep it stock height or shorter?
make a "extra" shifter handle that slides down over old one?
open cover ,slide shifter on,shift ,remove,close cover

or have the shifter nut size welded on top a six inch+ tube, slide another tube over that cut to lenght...

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Or a ford style shifter which is on the side of the trans hump.Either way you will be stuck making your own shifter linkage.

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You could make it a short throw shifter, its the same concept as a Honda Civic shifter. Add length between the pivot and the spot where the t-case linkage bolts on, making the throw shorter. So now when you make the top of the handle longer, the throw is the same as stock.

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More on my earlier post...pictures.

Here is an NV-4500 and NP-241 that is going into a 1988 GMC K1500, the passenger side drop NP-241 is from a square body. Notice the linkage for the transfer case.
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...a/P1080916.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...a/P1080917.jpg

It is built for this style shifter.
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/n...a/P1080923.jpg