Tuesday, June 26, 2007

 

I been busy as a cat on a hot tin roof. But not the kind of stuff I want to blog about. Just doctoring, tests and the like. No real rants or anything like that.

What I have done to stay sane is work on Henry in my idle time.
The shifter parts came, and I build the shifter. I put a start safety switch,
on it so it will only crank in park or neutral. I made all the brackets to mount the shifter under the dash. It is called the Behind the Dash "Invisible" Shifter.
This Sifter setup is a very unique shifter mechanism that mounts behind the dashboard allowing you to maintain a smooth steering column and a clean uncluttered floor.

I ran a cable from it to the trans. I routed it from the shifter inside the firewall and exit though the floorboard for a clean installation on the engine compartment side too.

After a dry run under the dash I took every thing back apart and painted all the parts.

I need more stuff. As with all the things I have done, each project calls on more stuff. I had to order a universal shift lever to hook the cable to on the transmission. Next I wanted a Gear Shift Indicator so I could see what gear I am in.
I ordered a Digital Gear Shift Sending Unit, that I will mount on the shifter.
Now come the Gear Shift Indicator it self. This will be the thingy we all familiar
with that has the P R N D 2 1 with little lights that light up the gear you are in. Maybe red R, orange P@N, Green D21. I will mount that in the dash near the steering column somewhere.

I picked this project to do now because it needs a lot of black smith work and not so much money. Don't get me wrong these parts are not free, but it is more labor than some of the other stuff that is ahead.

Maybe I can take a picture of the compete shifter before I put it in.

Labels: shifter.

posted by Johnnie 1:33 PM