Remote Shifters..........

[Sumner]

tpotts was talking to me about the lakester he is going to build and felt he needed to use an air shifter to shift the transmission since he will be in front of the motor/transmission.  I told him I had a few pictures of low buck alternatives.

I posted them ( HERE ) for him to see and anyone else that might be interested.

If you have any pictures of other options and want to e-mail them to me I'll post them also.

c ya, Sum

[Stan Back]

Jack Kelly of the yellow Kelly & Hall lakester has, from what I've seen, the best set-up.  I believe it uses a regular Hurst shifter and regular shift arms on the Super T-10(?) trans., and instead of rods, he uses solid cables (I know there's a better name for them) to link the shifter to the arms.  Everything stays "stock" dimension, it appears, and you don't have to learn a new shift pattern.  He told me he's never had any trouble with it, but of course, he knows how to put things together right.

[Ro Yale]

Our engineers designed and built a sequential shifter that will work on most any 3, 4, 5 speed with a reverse also. Best thing about it is you can down shift it also. Works great. We got ours on a 4 speed Jericho and air shifted. It can be used manual or air. Pretty slick piece.
Later, Ro

[Howard]

I used a Hurst shifter on my Richmond 5 speed and just ran metal rods( 1/2" thin wall tubing) back to the stock shifter arms. When I had to change direction to get around something I used some small surplus u-joints and supported the rods with some heim ends. I had  no problems except getting used to shifting left handed.
Earl is lazy and I believe he changed it to an air shifter or something.
Howard Nafzger ( old #448)

[Stan Back]

Sounds good.  But that's why I liked Jack's set-up best.  You don't have to learn (or remember) to shift left-handed when you might be busy doing somethin' else!

[Sumner]

 

Above is the car Stan is talking about.  It is one of the prettiest cars on the salt.  I didn't post a picture of it with the others as I didn't have any pictures with the body off showing how the Morse cables are hooked to the transmission.  Now that Stan has explained that I posted 5 pictures of the car on this page (  http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvilleother/page%209.html ) and Stan I quoted you on the page .  I also posted a link to the Morse cables here under Teleflex Morse (  http://purplesagetradingpost.com/sumner/bvillecar/bvillelinks.htm ).

 

Our engineers designed and built a sequential shifter that will work on most any 3, 4, 5 speed with a reverse also. Best thing about it is you can down shift it also. Works great. We got ours on a 4 speed Jericho and air shifted. It can be used manual or air. Pretty slick piece.
Later, Ro

Ro do you have a "link" to what they did or pictures, etc???

I used a Hurst shifter on my Richmond 5 speed and just ran metal rods( 1/2" thin wall tubing) back to the stock shifter arms. When I had to change direction to get around something I used some small surplus u-joints and supported the rods with some heim ends. I had no problems except getting used to shifting left handed.
Earl is lazy and I believe he changed it to an air shifter or something.
Howard Nafzger ( old #448)

Good info Howard.  I have pictures of your car, but not any of the remote shift.  Do you have any I could post??  Miss seeing you on the salt.

Thanks guys for the added input.  Any more???

c ya, Sum
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[tpotts]

THANKS!!!!!!TOM

[Dr Goggles]

Hi Sum and Tom and anybody else who's listening.The good Reverend and I are  using a cable shift out of a front wheel drive fourcylinder sedan.The cables are about three foot six long...it was fifteen dollars at a flea market....I was standing there staring at it thinking C.A.F.M! that thing could run any gearbox....and so with the el basico way I've set it up it works in a cross pattern..it remains to be seen whether that's practical .As Commander Grump our engine man says "you just wanna hope the sequential gears are opposite each other or you're stuffed shall we say"......To get the whole thing to feel right I had to take all the rubber grommets out and remove any slop .We also had to extend the selector tags on the 'box out wide so the cables ran straight back to them ..this introduced another element of difficulty so we ended up building a frame to support them at the outside as well , ahem , it works now.At the moment the pivots are bolts but soon(when I do my next bank heist) they'll be Heim joints.

We , crazily, elected to use our tank in it's original dimensions so it's been enough work just to fit the bare necessities in......making the shift work..getting the maximum movement out of the stick and then making it move the selectors the right amount was a job I probably could have done when I was a Lego expert at eight but that DIDN'T MAKE IT ANY EASIER   ....some of the dumbest jobs on this build are the most humbling which is a point that anybody building a car should remember....you can buy all sorts of fantastic components but the fine detail of stitching them together is the real doozy........

......for the record the shift we used came out of an Isuzu Gemini.

BTW ...I had a chuckle about you guys going on about shifting left handed( crazy  , go figure)....um that's how we do it all the time here....but just for the record our shift in the 'tank is ...wait for it ....on the right