Bender's Shifter

This shifter is SAWEET!  But the lockout for the "park" position was not yet completed when the crawler arrived in San Diego.  I called Bender and he explained how I should build the lockout.  His system seemed overly complicated and too bling for my taste so I took his idea and disimproved on it.  The system is quite simple:

Slide the lever left and you cannot pass between park and reverse.

When you want to pass between reverse and park, lift the lever and slide right.  Notice how the handy-dandy zip-tie acts as a spring keeping the lever in position in the bumps!  This was clearly not planned, but instead, an amazing phenomenon that was totally unexpected but very welcome.  I guess you could call it a miracle!

Then, slide it back left and it retains the shifter from passing back in the other direction.  Wanna theftproof you rig?  Get a padlock and lock the shifter in Park!  AMAZING and only a couple of bucks.  BUT in order to be sure it holds, you'd better spend a little extra $ for the good MasterLock.

Here's a wide shot so you can see how it was mounted. I see that it's not clear in the picture but for quick mounting, I used a #10 thumbscrew from a CB mount and a thumbscrew style nut on the backside of a small "L" bracket that was then screwed from the backside (to make it all look cleaner) with a drywall screw.

Hope this inspires you to take on automotive projects of your own!  Now go to the top of your browser and hit "back".  Hit it a few times and it will take you back to the porn website you were surfing a lil while ago.  MUCH better content there!

RockOn,

Dustin Webster

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