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..............................---- Remote Shifters -- Page 9 ---
How do you shift a manual transmission when the driver sits in front of the motor. Here are a couple pictures I took of some low tech shifters (no fancy air shifters here). If you have some pictures or can tell us more about these please e-mail me.
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Here a rod and a hinge and a heim joint get the job done.
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I believe this is the shifter in the cockpit of the car in the first picture, but I'm not absolutely sure. Rotate the handle and push it backwards or forward.
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I liked the arrangement in this car and would have probably copied it if I would of built my lakester for a car motor/transmission. Two handles with a gate so only one handle at a time can go backwards and forwards.
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This picture shows a coupling in the two rods (sorry it is out of focus) going back to the transmission.
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The two rods hook to a couple short shafts that are connected to the shift arms on the transmission.
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Stan Back had this to say about the lakester in the following five pictures "Jack Kelly of the yellow Kelly & Hall lakester has, from what I've seen, the best set-up. I believe it uses a regular Hurst shifter and regular shift arms on the Super T-10(?) trans., and instead of rods, he uses solid cables ( Morse Cables ) to link the shifter to the arms. Everything stays "stock" dimension, it appears, and you don't have to learn a new shift pattern. He told me he's never had any trouble with it, but of course, he knows how to put things together right."
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Here is a close up of the shifter with the morse cables attached. Sorry, but I don't have any pictures of the transmission end of this deal.
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This is such a beautiful car I wanted to include a couple more pictures. I'll start with the nice clean frontend on the car above......
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..................and the rear is just as nice looking. I like the chute pocket and.....
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........the fairings around the rear axles. If my lakester comes out looking one half as nice I'll be real happy. Nice car guys!!!