I thought I had asked about this before but couldn't find it by searching.
Anyway, I have a '51 4400 and a '5? 3800, both with SM420 transmissions. I don't like the stock shift lever, especially it's position. Naturally, I don't want to relocate the transmission.
I thought I saw a really expensive linkage that would do what I want, but can't find it now.
What I want to do is mount a fairly short shift lever just in front of the seat, in some kind of swivel cup. From that lever I run a rod to the stock shift lever, which would be cut to four or five inches long.
It seems to me that I wouldn't have any trouble with fore and aft movement even with a single linkage rod, but I'm not sure about side to side, even with fairly tight clevises on each end of the rod.
Has anyone seen or done anything like this?
