"AncientOfDays" (ancientofdays)
04/24/2014 at 17:37 • Filed to: 1985 AMC Eagle
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"AncientOfDays" (ancientofdays)
04/24/2014 at 17:37 • Filed to: 1985 AMC Eagle | 4
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To the untrained eye, this may look like an ordinary, straight-gated automatic transmission shift lever.
But it's not the one that the Eagle came (to me) with. At least not entirely. The metal lever and the handle came from an assembly that arrived from Pennsylvania last Wednesday.
See, when I got the car, there was this liiiiiitle tiny huge problem with the shifter. Basically, imagine you're in your car, about to move the gear lever. You probably need to push the button in with your thumb to unhook the thing so you can move it, right? That's so it doesn't move around by accident. Well, when I got the car, this mechanism was probably long since broken, so the lever just kind of clicked back and forth through the gears (or more accurately, the detents) by just gently pushing the lever forward or back.
This means that it if got kicked or bumped somehow, it could easily move, say, into Reverse while the car was driving down the road. You don't need to be a mechanic to surmise that that would be a Bad Thing. Not to mention that it could nullify all the work you just did to rebuild the transmission.
So I Frankensteined the lever and handle from the new shifter assembly into the one that was already in the car.
The end result is what you see above. The gear lever now works properly, and there were plenty of leftovers:
jkm7680
> AncientOfDays
04/24/2014 at 17:44 |
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Awesome! New carpet on the list? Or more important things first?
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AncientOfDays
> jkm7680
04/24/2014 at 17:46 |
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Thanks. The carpet actually looks a lot worse in the first photo than in real life, so it's not on the list, at least not for a long time.
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jkm7680
> AncientOfDays
04/24/2014 at 17:52 |
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Oh, Haha.
You've got a good color combo going on the exterior, Progress is good!