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Unread 04-18-2015, 02:23 PM   #110
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With all that stuff off, it's a good time to shorten the broomhandle shifter. Not the prettiest work but the Sawzall has a mind of its own at times. I wish it was cut a bit straighter but it's not going to snap off.

The removed bit is in the foreground. I used a grinder to shape the top and the notches that hold the knob on. The new Borg-Warner transmission comes with a shifter where the rod axle tubes are a bit closer together. That's because less action is needed fore/aft for the tranny. The commercial "short shifters" use the same spacing as the older car's shifter handles so cutting the handle down, and swapping the tranny, made it just like the commercail versions. And I got to use my 2nd favorite tool: Sawzall!

Red is the fastest color. Yellow is second. The shifter is silver as that can was on the shelf and the Taurus wagon the paint was for is long gone. 4 kids => wagon. I didn't have a minivan, at least.
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