Brian: The truest statement you have ever made was about the wisdom of buying a manufactured unit, like a Lokar or Gennie, rather than putzing around with this homemade one. When I look back on how many pages of this thread this one subject consumed, it is amazing. How can something so simple be so hard?

You have probably seen me give other rodders who are struggling with some issue the very same advice you just gave to me. "Quit messing around with it, bite the bullet and spend a couple of bucks to do it right." I should have just ordered the Gennie a couple of weeks ago and been done with it. My own Son and I had this little discussion at the shop one night, and that was his advice too. But I was trying to come in as close to the original $ 3 K figure as possible, and that meant building, rather than buying, most of the components. But in this particular case I admit I was being penny wise and pound foolish.

All of you, especially Brian, have expended a great deal of time and effort on what should have been a non-issue, and I thank each of you for that help. For now I am going to stop working on the shifter, and see what happens when the spring plunger arrives next week. I would like to salvage this shifter, because of the time I have in it (Yeah, I know that's just stupid and stubborn) and I may actually just order a Gennie in the final analysis. We will have to see.

But thanks again to everybody for all the help and suggestions. The info won't be wasted, as I am sure a lot of others will benefit from what we have been discussing. Today I am going to work on other areas of the T. I don't even want to see that stupid shifter for a while.


Thanks again guys for all you tried to do here. It helped a lot.


Don