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03-04-2022, 08:11 PM | #1 |
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How to bend shifter
An older friend of mine wants to bend his shifter on a 30 Model A Roadster for more leg clearance. How did you do it?
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03-04-2022, 08:13 PM | #2 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
Grab it with both hands and bend it where you want it. Don't let the force be against the forks.
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03-05-2022, 06:47 AM | #3 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
If he is looking for more leg room to get in and out he can just lift the shift lever up and swing it out of the way. To bend it, I think the best advice would be to take the lever out of the transmission and bend it in a vice. Protect the lever with pieces of aluminum or copper. I think there is too much risk to the forks to bend it in the car. Getting the lever hot will make it easier to bend but will compromise any plating or paint.
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03-05-2022, 09:46 AM | #4 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
I absolutely would not bend it. I’ve done another fix for tall guys before. If you remove the shifter bell tapping it loose and off and then slightly lift up to remove the pin in the shifter housing. Once removed you can rotate the shifter to see how it aids leg clearance as necessary. It makes the shift pattern closer to the passenger but overall it’s worked for some super long legged guys. Once placed mark it with a sharpee marker and then you can decide if you want to drill a new hole in place with shifter housing in place or remove to redrill at the bench. If you decide you don’t want that locating anymore, sell the car or whatever just lift up the lever and relocate back to the original pin position.
For life of me with this option I can’t see why anyone would even try to bend the lever. Jut my take after many years of service and inventiveness. I have detailed this before on the barn. Larry Shepard Last edited by larrys40; 03-05-2022 at 10:25 PM. |
03-05-2022, 09:59 AM | #5 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
It can be bent cold - enough to give a bit more leg room - especialy useful on RHD cars as the standard LHD lever ( which presuably all new ones are) is just a bit too close for comfort .Just make sure you don't put any force on the selector forks.- take care.
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03-05-2022, 09:54 PM | #6 |
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03-06-2022, 06:01 AM | #7 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
I took a shifter from a 39 ford and swapped it onto the A tower.
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03-06-2022, 12:24 PM | #8 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
Some of my club members have tried to bend reproduction shift levers and said the repros just snap off--too brittle.
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03-06-2022, 12:57 PM | #9 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
I heated both of mine to make the adjustment. I also removed 3/4” from both peddles. I’d have to experience Larry’s procedure to fully understand it. Photos may help?
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03-06-2022, 01:33 PM | #10 | |
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I’ll see what I can do this week. Have a couple of trans to deal with this week so will work on photos. It actually works great and you can put it back to standard without damaging anything or removing the shift tower . It’s pretty slick. Larry |
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03-06-2022, 03:39 PM | #11 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
For travelling down the open road, lift the shifter lever and swivel it up to the right out of your way. Pull it back to position, it'll snap in place.
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03-16-2022, 10:49 AM | #12 |
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Re: How to bend shifter
Heat it up
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