shift knob made of solid aluminum

hi together,

i would like to introduce my self-designed shift knob for manual transmission. i currently developed two different version, one adjustable and one non-adjustable; both made of solid aluminum.

visit my homepage for details: www.odenwaldraeuber.de

there you can find some photos.

wolfgang  

hmm.... the last friends car i swapped a top loader into ...   i used a stack of flat washers of various sides.. with an acorn nut on the top and a jam nut on the bottom of the stack.. he likes it....

i took some aluminum bar stock decades ago and milled the ends to about a quarter inch thick... drilled  holes in the proper location..  bent 2 of the three... used a 7/16 bolt for the fulcrum  and the rest of the shift rods...  it looked like a lenco shifter...

i should have used a hollow tube like an old piston pin for the pivot so i could really get the bolt in tight...     i also carpeted them...  it was lots of fun to shift..

the center lever forward.. for first.. pull back through neutral to second...

push forward to neutral and with the open palm start pushing the left lever forward to get third...    then pull it straight back  to 4th gear..   the 3rd lever was for reverse and was way short...  ... the interlock inside the cover prevented 2 gears from being engaged at one time...   the reverse lever could be pushed forward to put it in reverse...   and i could lock it in a forward gear and into reverse at the same time  to prevent the car from rolling...  it really worked great...  only problem... it only works with external shift linkage transmissions.. that you have a shifter for...  as you need to measure to get the lengths right..

nice stang wolfgang..  

hi wayne,

do you have some photos of that? sounds intersting.

wolfgang  

a actually still have most of the shifter levers left... i saw them in my storage locked a few months ago....

i did try to describe it in detail ....   so it should not be hard to copy...

\|/   is kinda what it looked like sticking up through the floor... the left stick was about half as tall as the others... as that was reverse...


just duplicate what you have sticking out of the bottom of the shifter.. by thinning the bar stock on a mill...  space it with washers...    

do either use a tube for the pivot or build a box to support it as there is a lot of pressure on the bolt sideways...

l..