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05-03-2009, 09:03 PM
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dang its hot
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: frankfort kentucky
Posts: 1,349
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bored...made a shifter
got bored and started with a strut rod from an old MAC floor jack, part of a police console and a welder. the gate is next and will operate with the squeeze trigger. I have it in my head but have not made the pieces yet. Lots of drilling, scrounging parts bins and time. Had a blast and if it goes in the truck, flat black, rat rod look currently, I'll leave it rough. If it was going in something pretty, I'd polish it up. The wood on the handle was scraps and I used old creeper caster nuts, deep female nuts, and some counter sunk type screws then filed the finger groves...gee I'm havin fun!
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05-03-2009, 09:06 PM
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dang its hot
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: frankfort kentucky
Posts: 1,349
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Re: bored...made a shifter
sorry for the blurry photo, I may make a narrower base...
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05-03-2009, 09:09 PM
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dang its hot
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: frankfort kentucky
Posts: 1,349
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Re: bored...made a shifter
oh yeah, unlike most cable shifters that mount the cable attachment above the pivot point, this one will be below so for rear exit it would function normally, front exit it would work backwards which might be novel...
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05-03-2009, 11:39 PM
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I have car A.D.D.
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Greeley, Northern Colorado
Posts: 4,147
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Re: bored...made a shifter
Kinda has a cool look to it! I like home-made shifters.
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05-04-2009, 01:56 AM
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Cheyenne Super
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Dallas Texas
Posts: 545
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Re: bored...made a shifter
That looks wicked, looks like it's out of the Cadillac from the movie The Highwaymen.
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05-04-2009, 12:04 PM
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Cruzzzn' Vet
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Porterville,Ca.
Posts: 1,918
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Re: bored...made a shifter
Pretty stout looking
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05-04-2009, 09:45 PM
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Navy Radioman Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Western Kentucky
Posts: 1,350
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Re: bored...made a shifter
you'll have to bring it with you in July or Aug!
Ken
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05-05-2009, 08:36 AM
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dang its hot
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: frankfort kentucky
Posts: 1,349
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Re: bored...made a shifter
hopefully it will be in use...
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05-05-2009, 09:25 AM
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Happy to be here
 
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Cypress, TX
Posts: 39,023
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Re: bored...made a shifter
Very "industrial" looking. Needs more holes in it...
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