Lokar Automatic Shiter

[Waverous]

Anyone running a Lokar automatic shifter linkage? Love the look, just don't know if it would fit with my Atlas twin stick.

 

[daddyo]

Anyone running a Lokar automatic shifter linkage? Love the look, just don't know if it would fit with my Atlas twin stick.

I'm working on it right now. I want the shifter just to the right of my
transfer case shifter, so the installation is not straightforward. The are
several engineering hurdles to make this thing mount exactly where I
want it.

I want the shifter right next to the transfer case shifter, so I turned
the body around so that the shift arm comes down on the right side.
This makes the gate backwards, but it is easy to remove, and I will
make another one.

In this configuration, you might be able to use a bent rod as a linkage
but the shift forces will be higher and there will be some side loads on
the arms at the shifter and at the tranny. The rod that they give you
will be pretty spongy for this purpose because of the angle and the
necessary bend. I have chosen to try a cable. I want a sanitary bolt
on situation without anything welded to the frame or body.

I got a custom 4' push-pull cable and I made a cable bracket for the
tranny end and the shifter end. The transfer case and the transfer
case shifter mechanism definately get in the way, and that is with a
single stick t-shift transfer case.

It took me two tries at the shifter end because the first time my bracket
got in the way of the stiffener channel under the floor. Now everything
works great (out of the Bronco), except I think the cross-member under
the intermediate housing will hit the bracket on the tranny. I have a
pattern for a new bracket with new cable routing, but I haven't made it
yet.

That is my unecessarily long and unfinished saga.

Andrew