Column Shift Selector

[deziped1]

My 89 MJ gear selector snapped off at internal end in column.  Will a 96 XJ shift selector handle work as a replacement? Got to make a JY search other wise.

[Strokermjcomanche]

The 96 xj isn't a column shift .it should be the column with the airbag in the steering wheel Your mj has a column shift right?so it won't work You can change the column and also make it a floor shift but you would need everything out of a pre 95 xj . It's probably easier to get a column or fix the one you've got IMO .

[HOrnbrod]

Or you can always do this:

 

[Strokermjcomanche]

Is that column out of a yj? Or did you swap the indicator / center section ?

[HOrnbrod]

Aftermarket HERE.

[deziped1]

Hornbrod -- There is nothing wrong with shift indicator.  The problem is that the  end of the gear selector lever is broken off (1/4" inch of it) where it slips into the upper end of the rod going down the column.  It's a Chevy steering column in these MJ's and I think like 75 to 90+ will work.  I pulled one this AM out of a 93 that worked but it was not shaped (& black - mines chrome) any where near like the MJ's.  I'll snatch one out of a Beretta next time I.am in Eugene.  I'm just using a screw driver in there now, but, it works.  I recently tossed (couldn't find anyone needing one) in JY a column shift I pulled from an 86 V6 with 904 tranny that had the external  gear position indicator, now I wished I had kept it. S--- happens.

[HOrnbrod]

Ah, okay, understand. So you just need a new Saginaw column shift lever? There are plenty of aftermarket shift lever kits on Ebay.

 

[deziped1]

Yup, that would fix it up.