Since my last post things have changed. :homework: I was forced to think out of the perverbeal box, due to twin stick shifter mounting considerations. Some thought and a consult w/ our fearless leader :notworthy: , MC, I decided to pull the trigger :snipersmile: and have / ask MC to make me a clocking ring "just" for the TH400 which he is supposed to be buzzin' out today, yes Sunday, gotta love the dedication :lo1l: .
So it will be a TH400 X TH400 clocking ring IN FRONT of the TH400 X NP205 adapter. This will be considerably less work then making a clocked TH400 X NP205 adapter :t: . When it is all said and done, barring any unforseen circumstances, the NP205 will be clocked about 12 Degrees counterclockwise as you sit in the drivers seat. :4: degrees would bring the NP205 TC down to square to the world but the clocking needs to be of sufficient degrees so as to allow for a new set of threaded holes to be punched into the new adapter for countersunk bolts, to bolt the new adapter to the TH400 itself, so by my calcs :idea: , it looks like it will need to get clocked a good 6-8 degrees past plumb to make this happen. Like so;
There are other issues doing all this as well :eeeeek: . That being the TC shifters. If one were to take, let's say, the GM NP205 twin stick that a guy on Ebay sells, which is what I opted for, and after making mods to the main pivot points of said to fit a 1/2" bolt, one will find the shifters protruding through the trans tunnel cover at the very rear of the trans cover tunnel. In my Jeep (J-10, a 1979) on the passenger side of the trans tunnel cover, forward, there is another small hatch where another TC shifter would protrude through in a different drivetrain variation of this truck. This is where I am thinking about placing my twin stick shifters. Up close to the AC and out of the way. This is going to entail making a linkage(s) between the now chopped off Ebay shifter shaft(s), chopped off below the trans tunnel covers and then weld on tabs w/ holes to accept misalignment 90* fittings on them, and the existing TC shifter shaft hatch that is in the existing trans tunnel cover. There will be issues w/ leverage and throw angles of the shifters but I do believe I can overcome all obsticles and get-er-done.
Now you watch, just because I suggested it here first, someone will try to beat me to it, but I plan on using twin HURST shift sticks. I actually bought them dam near a year and a half ago now. The coolness factor will really be up there.
To mount the front pivot point of the forward controlled Hurst shift sticks I am thinking about bolting a pivot rod of sorts to the top of a TCI trans shield I picked up on EBay for 20 bucks.
If you are still w/ me you have the J-Truck disease too I see!~ 111!!!
