custom shift levers
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custom shift levers
Before I begin I want to see if anyone has done this. The target is my 93 ZJ.
I find my 4WD lever to be annoying as it is often difficult to move. A tad more leverage is exactly what it needs and the stock shifter leve is boring.
I want to remove both and replace each with a straight black "pipe" shifter. Basically a length og black steel pipe drilled and bolted in place with rubber grips on the end. My main question is, can I just do exactly that? I don't want to have to push a button or anything like the stock shifter. With both 4WD and PRND etc I want to just grab the lever, pull, and be done.
I find my 4WD lever to be annoying as it is often difficult to move. A tad more leverage is exactly what it needs and the stock shifter leve is boring.
I want to remove both and replace each with a straight black "pipe" shifter. Basically a length og black steel pipe drilled and bolted in place with rubber grips on the end. My main question is, can I just do exactly that? I don't want to have to push a button or anything like the stock shifter. With both 4WD and PRND etc I want to just grab the lever, pull, and be done.
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you'll have to remove the push button lock out of the lower part of the stock trans shifter to move it freely. but personally i think it would bounce around on trails and i would want to make sure park locks. no run-a-way jeeps for me. but to each their own.
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Its pretty easy to tell when a gear is engaged but if someone has a simple idea to add a release to the new lever I'm all ears
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use a hurst design with the t-handle up front to grab with your fingers i am sure it can be done and am very curious to see it may be something i look into in the future
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^ LOL
I actually have a few disarmed gernades from Vietnam my grandfather gave me. Hmm....lol
Thanks for the ideas guys. Wiill probably start working on it in about a week. Got to finish a few other things I been working on.
I actually have a few disarmed gernades from Vietnam my grandfather gave me. Hmm....lol
Thanks for the ideas guys. Wiill probably start working on it in about a week. Got to finish a few other things I been working on.
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I have this grenade ****, but it is for manual only. The lever can move, but it would take a small machine shop to make it work as an automatic ****.
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...lse&intcmp=rec
Then there's this type, but I don't own one;
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...rX-vbg&cad=rja
http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...lse&intcmp=rec
Then there's this type, but I don't own one;
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...rX-vbg&cad=rja
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A buddy of mine had a large open/box end wrench as his shifter. If you wanted a t-shift handle you could then bolt two sockets through the box end of the wrench.
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