d18 questions

Forget it.... tore it apart today to find new looking bearings, and forma gasket on every peiece, so ids say seals and bearings already been repalced... pulled that little pill looking lock rod deal, and shes back together ready for shifters... shoulds be faiarly easy to do now...

 

Dont know if it will help but i posted a couple different pics of the linkage. If you need any more shots of it let me know.

Here they are
http://www.gertrudethepug.com/Grinsha/d18s.htm

 

Mmmm..... .that looks like Forward Control linkage. Am I wrong? And does that U joint need some grease?

 

Here is my plan. I plan to mount a small hiem joint ( for pivet point) on the shift rods, and run 2 shifters, up a couple inched bent at a 9 over the tranny,a dn then striagh tup between my seats. For a pivot point i'll machine a "fork" that mounts btween the tranny and tcase, using hiems again for the rods to pivet on... this should allow me to push the shifter forward, and shock the rods back at the same time.

 

Something like this might work for ths shifter
http://www.speedwaymotors.com/xq/as...q.0/cont.1/intPgNo.1/redirect./qx/product.htm

That is an FC linkage.
I lubed the U-Joints when i bought the truck a couple years ago.
Since then i have used 4wd twice and for less than 20 feet both times.

 

Those would work, if i was able to go striaght up from my tcase, but I cant do to my seats. I could probably buy those ( we sell them at the shop) but at the bottom I need to a an L (rotated counterclockwise 180 degrees) so that I could mount them above the tranny... I wish I had cad ro somethign to draw it up, cuase im not good at explainging anythign, but thanks for the shifter idea... I may use it, and just ad to them... I have an aluminum welder, so extedending them is no big deal.

 

just a word of caution when putting the trans and tc back together. what ever you do don't pull the rear or front shaft on the trans i did that in my t14 and the roller bearings come out and get lodged and tc won't go back on right. it really was a pain to find out the hard way. is the lever to close to your seats? i know that a d20 out of a wag or truck is set up more forward to clear seat

 

They are under the seat, need to bring them over to the side drivers side some, or have a shifter pokin my passanger in the butt... lol