Fabricating a Unique Shift Lever | Homemade Boat-tail Speedster Pt. 52
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2021
- In this video I make a custom shift lever for my speedster by modifying and adapting an early Ford lever to the newer Chevy T5 transmission. I had to figure out a way to mechanically attach the new lever because the specific type of steel didn't weld nicely. Similar methods can be used for making custom shift levers on other hot rods and custom rides.
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A wonderful aesthetic sensibility. An industrial designer/craftsman. Ettore Bugatti would be pleased to have this young man as an associate.
I do not spend much time here but one thing is clear to me; you are a very good student and have had an excellent teacher...hats off to both of you
You never miss the centerpunch, cut line, or anything. Everything is straight and true. That in itself is real talent.
can't wait to see the little Jag engine go in and start up. beautiful build.
Original shifter warning! I've seen some crazy metals on shifters from iron, to galvanized steel, 11L17, and even one contained lead.
The one you have there is 11L17, great for machining, wear resistance etc. Stupid hard to weld low carbon with high manganese..
Sitting in/on a project and making broom broom noises is a great motivator to complete the project.
Can't wait to see the gage cluster.
just my thought too.
As a woodworker I love the detail of getting the grain right. 😀😍
Cant wait for the engine to arrive and see this piece of art turn a wheel.
@ 06:05 When using a radial arm saw, tuck your thumb underneath your palm to keep it out of harm's way, it serves no purpose being outstretched anyway since the cutting force is away and back from the workpiece. In fact, a well-sharpened negative tooth rake blade would need no help in holding work in place and will freely slice through unlike a tablesaw. I have rebuilt many of this saw type over my 73 years and it is my preferred sawing machine.
You have a great video series; I just want to make sure you still retain all ten digits for the future. ☺
Your attention to detail is impressive.
I just love the way you tackle every project. You are emblematic of the old Henry Ford axiom: Whether you think you can or think you can’t , your right. Keep up the great job you videos are very well made as well. How is progress on the Jag motor? Hope to see and hear the heartbeat soon.
Engine is at the machine shop. I should be getting the bottom end stuff back soon and ready to assemble
Very wise adding the pin to the gear lever joint. There is a surprising amount of force at that point.
You have an engineering and design mind! You have the ability to visualize what the end product. Amazing!
I love the attention to detail. You are also a master of Plan B. That's a good skill to have.
You never fail to impress everyone with your talent and ingenuity
Hope I live long enuff to read about you in future publications to see how you changed the world !
Pretty Talented young man good for you.
That's just epic. The attention to detail is absolutely outrageous!
Dude you are a master at this machinery, and you make it look so even if it is not and that is what makes you my favorite
you-tuber engineer.
great to have you watching!
I can't wait to see this project completed and profiled (along with you) on a future edition of Jay Leno's Garage. Not sure if Jay will be able to test drive it considering its size, but a worthy entry nonetheless.
Sitting in the incomplete car making vroom vroom noises is cool- all the big kids do it! You are building it to enjoy, right? So, enjoy! FR
Came out great….. like everything you show us. 👍👍😎👍👍
Great work again. It's really coming together nicely. Billy J..... Australia.
Great solution and craftsmanship as always!!!
Obviously there are so many ways you could have attached your shifter arm assembly. What you did works perfect though. IF, you really need to weld things, you could have spun up a total new shifter that fits inside the transmission and go from there. But your idea looks great as well. Thumbs Up!
One of the down sides of a long horizontal gear stick is it can be bounced out of gear due to the inertia of the arm.
The counterweight suggested by someone earlier might help then
It's all coming together. Looking great
Not sure how I missed this installment, given that I've become pretty good about viewing each one on the same day you upload them. Reminds me of my own intentions to take advantage of my Uni-era woodworking and foundry/forming courses to design and fab a custom shift knob for my second-hand Mk 1 VW Cabriolet. Sadly, the closest I got was knocking out a few VERY rough concept sketches, and I never managed to have access to similar shop equipment to revisit it, post-graduation; then life got even more complicated than it already had been. Kudos (as usual) for going beyond that and making something happen! As an aside, your horizontal shift arm layout is suggestive of that found in a Citroën 2CV (one of my favourite marques/models), but with your Jag engine in that roadster, you would surely blow any 'tin snail' away. 😄
Maybe add a little counter weight to the nut side of the shift lever, 5th gear will have the shifter in the up position with the long shifter pulling against 5th gear in the transmission. Maybe even something decorative if it will show outside the boot.
the shifter is pretty thin so it shouldn't weigh much.
hovever i can see the thing being easily bumped out of gear in 1st/3rd/5th gear, i think a shifter not unlike that of the 2CV or Renault 4 that you push/pull would have been better
Just hook a bungie cord to the dash... and you can hold it into those gears to the upside. you're welcome
@@calholli hooking a bungee cord would just reverse the situation, now instead of having the potential issue of going out of gear in 1st/3rd/5th, now you will have the lever snapping out of 2nd/4th/R
I love how you solve problems and make do. I did cringe however watching you drill while holding the piece in your hand.
I'm glad I must have overlooked that portion. Back when I was an in-house exhibit installer for a local science museum, one of my colleagues had a mishap with a drill press and his hand. I only saw it after the event and the healing process was well underway, but it was still pretty nasty. Still makes me shudder every time I use a drill of any kind. 😬
Brilliant job !!! Loved watching you work thru the Rod attachment issue ... it's always "The Little Things" and you scored 100 on adding the extra Pin to the attachment to keep it tight later in it's Life Cycle; I was concerned with short ED when you first bored the threaded bolt ... the Pin will make up for the loss of material. Can't wait for your next installment !!!
Always a pleasure to see your videos. Stellar work!
Amazing work, as indeed every episode so far has been, well done.
Fantastic skilled work and a pleasure to watch.
Looking good. It will be so cool to see it going down the road.
Very ingenious. Keep thinking.
If, as others already pointed out, this rod is ductile iron, brazing should´ve also worked.
I would not trust braze to hold.
@@maxironpaw After I saw what Abom79, Keith Rucker and Keith Fenner have repaired by brazing I definitely would!
Not to mention quite a few instances where them and other guys found decades-old repairs on various stuff which held.
@@sthenzel No doubt that braze can be strong. I use it a lot myself. But there was not much meat there to grab and there is a lot of leverage on that shifter - one enthusiastic shift from second to third and it could snap right off.
Love the new time lapse style! It's like a stop motion film. Keep up the good work!
Wonderful work!
Excellent work as always. Greetings from the UK. 👍
Nice job! I think I would have tapped both the shifter lever and the part coming out of the transmission and just made a 90 degree elbow to connect them and put a lock nut on it, your way certainly works but I was just concerned boring such a big hole into unknown metal and possibly weakening it and not much there to work with after that if it breaks
Dude I would literally be making cool shit like this if any kind of fabrication shop would friggin hire me.
Don't be so negative on yourself.. start small even Jesse James, Henry Ford, Wright Brothers etc. Didnt start making massive huge projects. Take knowledge where you can find it, then apply it. You don't need millions of $ in tools. You would be surprised what you can make with a basic tool set, a grinder, and two car batteries. That's close to where I started. Will you fail? Of course, but its a start. One of my favorite quotes when he was asked about his lightbulb.
“I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.” ― Thomas Jefferson
Even finding 20 min a day to tinker or build, I wish you luck.
P.s
I build and repair, and I'm here to see what he's doing. Knowledge is priceless.
That shifter metal was most likely ductile iron.....
Someone using a hacksaw?. I’m mildly impressed!.
It looks like you need to make it a short shifter. You just have to add some material under the pivot point. Then add that same amount under the mounting flange. 1/2" should do. It being ductile iron would make it harder though.
On wards and upwards. I can't wait to see this project finished.
very nice attention to detail
It turned out excellent!
Neat shifter setup.
Slick work and nice problem solving!
Beautiful work...
As much as I love this car it's now readily apparent that's no car for an old fat man.
you might need to counterweight the shifterarm a little as hitting a bump can make it fall out of first thirth and fifth
as for bending : weld two pieces of roundbar straight up on the table , you can put the rod in between it and roll it around the two pieces its verry handy to have for stuff like that
Keep up the good work you inspire me to try thing I never would have otherwise
I'm wondering since you lost that inch or so of height on it will that come into play when you build a tunnel around the transmission? Looked like that reverse shift was awfully close to making contact, though that could just be the angle of the camera.
Either way, awesome work and I completely agree about getting that grain pattern lined up nicely, that would drive me nuts if it were off.
Excellent job, thanks.
vroom, vroom, screech wau, shift wau, shift, wau shift, wauuuu
Nicely done.
Super Job!
Looking good!
nice work
Awesome!!!!
Hand-hewn automobile
Thanks for your videos
The corner of the flat you made on the shaft coming out of the gearbox might be a stress riser over time. Keep an eye on it for awhile once you start using it.
I hope your going to leave that trans and torq tube exposed! Looks great glad you can set in it and make engine noises!!
The torque tube will be mostly exposed. The trans will be too unless it gets hot enough that it needs to be covered
Sweet!
having daily driven (with vigour) a volvo amazon i feel you may eventually change the angle of the gear knob to closer to 90º from its plane of travel.
it feels weird at first but as it is now in a similar plane of movement to the steering wheel it becomes very natural and makes for fast shifts, with great economy of movement. (especially given how close your gear knob is to the steering wheel)
vroom vroom lol 👍🏻
nicely done vid 🤙🏻
Thought about something like this on an old Ford pickup, but I was going to use the ball and socket shift linkage from a Corvair so that it shifted more like a car instead of a truck transmission
lookin Good !
love the production quality. maybe turn the volume down a little when using the machines. Keep up the greate work!
Wonderful --
Happy , as u should b.😃😃😃
Not sure what you're doing in college, but I'm betting it's mechanical engineering and this is your capstone project.
Now let's get that engine built so we can hear "Gentleman, start your engine!"
Mechanical engineering is my major. This is just my own personal project though
@@MacroMachines - As a former teacher, it looks like a capstone to me. You have the documentation for it, certainly.
G-R-R-REAT Job!
Nice work! With all the weight of that long lever arm pulling down on the shifter, have you considered the possibility of it wanting to jump out of 1st, 3rd, and 5th gear...especially over bumps in the road. I had this issue in an old ford falcon of mine. It had a three on the tree with a heavy aftermarket shift knob. On bumpy dirt roads or over pot holes it would occasionally pop into neutral...very annoying. Hope it works out well for you. Cool stuff.
Interesting. It’s on my plate to do something similar to my T5, probably with a Model A shifter . I think there are plastic parts inside that plate with the folded wings, I’ve seen in other videos how to remove it before applying heat. Hopefully you didn’t melt anything! Maybe yours is different, mine is from a ‘92 S10. **I had not heard or seen before the issue you had welding to it. Always learn something from you, sir.
yeah I made sure that I wouldn't damage the plastic components inside the assembly. I also read online that new shift arms can just be welded to the stock T5 arm, so maybe there's a variety of shift arms on different T5s and only some can be easily welded
That piece might be cast Ductile Iron.
I am wondering if that transmission stub needed a greater preheat in order to be welded. I had a shift lever to trans weld break and that was no fun. I think that you came up with the best possible solution. Do you really need the passenger wind screen?
Hard to see correctly in the video but from the recording angel you may have a problem shifting to 2,4 and revers. It looks like you will hit the transition tunnel, hope i am wrong and love the car.
Great job pal. Real wanted brrrmmmm brrrmmmm. nosies
Any plans for a supercharger on that beautiful straight six? Also is it the 3.8 litre or 4.2 litre?
2.4 from memory, the smallest of the XK range of 2.4, 3.4, 3.8 and 4.2. The 2.4 was the only ‘oversquare’ engine with a short stroke.
That shifter stub is probably high carbon steel. That's why it didn't weld.
Vince I think maybe braising it (oxy acetalene) using silicon bronze may have worked as well
Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
possibly. It would have been a chore to disassemble the shifter assembly though since the sheet metal housing would need to be uncrimped
@@MacroMachines seeing the video to the end Vince I think what you did was a better fix, it gives you a chance to take the gear leaver off if you need to remove the gear box without having to line up the forks in the gear box etc when putting the car back together.
Also with the angle it is set will the leaver sort of be set in the lower dashboard cowling or from a forward tunnel mount?
Still braising can be an alternative to consider elsewhere maybe as another tool in your toolbox, so to speak.
Brilliant work as usual Vince 👍
Grin, no matter how many videos you put out, they ARE NEVER ENOUGH!
Tony from Western Australia 🇦🇺
i might be watching too much hoonigan, but i think you have the same voice as brian scotto
Awesome design, but I wonder why you went with an under loop instead of a more traditional over loop?
Because I though it looked better this way. It doesn't make a difference to the functionality
@@MacroMachines you thinking of doing a firewall? I’m curious to see what you’ll come up with for the shifter.
Did you try 7018 rod? Was thinking about why they wouldn't weld, I'm wondering if the original shift lever wasn't an alloy rich in chromium and/or cobalt. 7018 has always been my go-to for stainless and stainless behaving steels
Okay that's a very clever workaround. Don't skimp on the loctite! And a jam nut! She's looking beautiful though
awsome work! still hoping that you redo the window screens as a one piece :)
No
@@TankToChest yes :p
Engine noises Ha ha! Vroom vroom! Enjoy..
Do you happen to need throttle cables or brake cables? I happen to have about a dozen various vintage cables and original handles. They are mostly out of 30s and 40s Packards but I think there are some old Ford ones as well. I have no use for them, they're yours if you cover postage
Oh yeah, Studebaker as well. I think I have the the nickel coated e-brake lever as well
Great video! I burnt my dinner..
😂🤣
Been there. Done that.
Some people say I’m easily distra……squirrel. 🐿
Lol 😂 with those long ass arms I know you could still shift a short shifter 🤣
noticed your universal joints on your steering shaft, what brand are they.
not sure off hand. I think I just found them on ebay
How thick are ur alloy for the body
Vince. I have a feeling that this project is about to SHIFT into high gear.
Sorry #dadjoke
Need a roll bar behind your head be safe. The OLDMAN.
It's going to hit your transmission tunnel, isn't it?
weld with brass
When did you make your windscreen ?
Here’s the video.
ruclips.net/video/4O4HuiGMfFg/видео.html
@@Crewsy thanks man I had forgotten been a while back