[JJorgensen52]

Originally Posted by Advanced Design

Really looking like a truck JJ! Maybe need a hood stretcher? Guessing the hole you mentioned is due to a flattened rubber cushion.

Hood stretcher, I like it Thanks! Here's the hole in question:


Made a junkyard run today, and I acquired the remote reservoir setup from the Express (it was an '04 5.3 van)


And while I was there, I also saw this shift linkage in a '90ish GMC Safari:


It struck me as something I could modify to work.

I will say, after a bunch of tinkering and iterations, I now have full shifter functionality and happily, the TH400 gates in the column have *just* enough room in this setup to grab all four drive gears.


I had to shorten the bellcrank and the pivot mount where it hits the frame, re-clock the lever arm on the bellcrank, and shorten the linkage. But it works! I'm on iteration #3 for most of the parts, and I need to re-clock the bellcrank a few degrees for it to be perfect, but I'm quite pleased with how this turned out. About $12 in parts and a few hours of my time