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.

 

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.

 

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

 

connect a rod on the inside of ur pipe to use as the release

 

it would be cool if the handle was a grenade and the lever you had to push to shift. would that be sick or what?

 

x2 or maybe a gun grip and you pull the trigger to unlock it and lock it

 

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

 

the gun grip is a sweet idea until your pulled over lol getting shot putting the jeep in park

 

^ 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.

 

sweet! post pics!


just remember!

 

When I'm done I'll share

 

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

 

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.