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Old Jan 27, 2020 | 08:11 PM
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Originally Posted by fergerburger
decided to waste a crap load of time and fab up a hand shift - foot clutch for this 78 I'm building - had a rotary top tranny and belt drive sittin on a shelf so I pulled the ratchet top tranny and installed the rotary top unit - had to "guess" at how to set this hand shift up but my guesses are pretty good so far - a bit of welding though - here are some pics - probably have 3 or 4 hours into this stuff - need to do a few finish welds and bends




That's an amazing setup. Is it possible to buy one of those clutch release arms from you? I'm converting my cowpie to jockey shift as well. 630.992.1970
 
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