Ratchet Shifter

[MJ_Milam]

So today at the flea market I found a brand new B&M floor $#!&er. Everything in the box unopened and all hardware and shift cable. Picked it up for $45 and when I got home pulled it out of the box and realized what I came up on. It's a quicksilver ratchet shifter, which usually go from $200-$250 online. It's probably overkill for my Comanche but should be cool. Hopefully I'll get a chance to put it in this week and post some pictures. The only modification I can see is a bracket for the cable and the mounting tab on the shifter for the trans. Hopefuly it works out

[Incommando]

Let's us know what you think of it. They seem to be a love it/hate it product.

[MJ_Milam]

Let's us know what you think of it. They seem to be a love it/hate it product.

i will keep you updated. For $45 it's worth a shot. worst case, i take it out and go back to a column shifter

[Incommando]

It was a great buy.

[MJ_Milam]

so first was making the stock trans gear selector work. i knocked the nipple out and opened the hole up to accept the B&M linkage

 

 

had to grind the lever a little so i could fit the pin all the way through and clear the cotter pin.

 

[MJ_Milam]

next was modifying the stock cable bracket to work. it was actually fairly simple. i just used one of the brackets included and cut it and welded to the stock bracket.

 

 

cut the excess off and welded it together

 

[MJ_Milam]

next I got the shifter cable mounted and routed. i ran it up and over the bell housing and drilled an acess hole in the trans tunnel to feel the cable through to the shifter

 

[MJ_Milam]

and here's the shifter installed (sorry i got excited and forgot pics of mounting the shifter before fitting the cover. I'll pop is back off and take some pics when i get a chance). It shifts smooth, the gear selection indicator lines up perfect on the housing. If i got motivated enough it would be cool to have a P-R-N-O-3-2/1 gear selector tag made. so for now i have the turbo 350 tag in place

 

[banshee]

Nice job

[MJ_Milam]

Nice job

thanks. It was fun making it work

[HOrnbrod]

Do the backup lights and the ignition switch interlock still work?

[Comanche County]

Can you make it where there's no reverse lock out?  As in, you could slam it up in reverse, sometimes that's handy when wheeling.  Just wondering...

[JeepcoMJ]

Do the backup lights and the ignition switch interlock still work?

I should think so, those run off the NSS, and the ratchet shifter hasn't changed any factory position functions.

[MJ_Milam]

Do the backup lights and the ignition switch interlock still work?

[MJ_Milam]

The interlock still works but the back up lights, no. They give you switches included with the shifter, just haven't hooked it up yet.