source for gearshift (stick)

[doc76016]

Friday the gearshifter (the stick) snapped on my M35a2. I was able to get it welded back together and I am now using it. However, I just know that it will break again when I am in a most inconvenient location. I spent several hours yesterday on the phone and online trying to locate a replacement to keep in the cab for this eventuality. No go. Does anyone here a source for an original replacement or a civilian equivalent? Is this a common part to break or am I just "lucky"?

TIA,
mdh

 

[FormerNewMVGuy]

Did you try TNJ Murry?

 

[doc76016]

Re: RE: source for gearshift (stick)

Did you try TNJ Murry?

No. Good suggestion. I'm incommunicado tomorrow. I'll write myself a memo to check on Tuesday.

mdh

 

[m16ty]

I was at Buddy Hammonds last week ( he used to own a military salvage yard but has scrapped everything). I tripped over one laying in the dirt. If I had known you needed one I would have sure picked it up.

 

[54reo]

How did you manage to snap one in two?

Just curious...

 

[doc76016]

How did you manage to snap one in two?

Just curious...

I tried to put it into 1st gear. I used very little force. Honest. It snapped right at the top of the clamp/bracket that secures it.

mdh

 

[CCATLETT1984]

must have been cracked already.

Your best bet would be someone that is parting out a truck, PM gimpyrobb.

 

[m16ty]

The main problem is going to be finding a shifter without a trans attached to it. Maybe you could find someone with a bad trans but if someone has a good trans they're not going to sell the shifter off it.

 

[doghead]

I had the same thing happen once. I ground it down and welded it.

 

[DavidB]

Do you want strait or curved have both need address and will check shipping.
DavidB

 

[doc76016]

Do you want strait or curved have both need address and will check shipping.
DavidB

Ziggy0 PM'd me last night that he had a NOS one. I replied back that I'd take it, but he hasn't responded. If it falls through I'll get in touch.


Thanks,
mdh

 

[doc76016]

I had the same thing happen once. I ground it down and welded it.

I did that. I'm afraid it will happen again, though. That's why I'm in the market for another. Funny how the "little" things can disable a vehicle or make it difficult to operate. I found out one time how hard it is to drive a car when the seat back fails.

mdh

 

[doc76016]

I have some laying around........no tranny attached.

Thanks to the great community of folks here I believe that I will soon have a replacement. I do thoroughly appreciate the effort, though. Maybe I'll be able to reciprocate some time. Kharma and all that, you know...

mdh

 

[m16ty]

Funny how the "little" things can disable a vehicle or make it difficult to operate. I found out one time how hard it is to drive a car when the seat back fails.

After reading this I had a picture in my mind of the shifter breaking and trying to shift gears to get home by the little nub sticking out of the top of the trans .

 

[Offroadfabworks]

i might have a extra shifter in the shop. ill look tomorrow. been outta town lately.

 

[doghead]

Funny how the "little" things can disable a vehicle or make it difficult to operate. I found out one time how hard it is to drive a car when the seat back fails.

After reading this I had a picture in my mind of the shifter breaking and trying to shift gears to get home by the little nub sticking out of the top of the trans .

Here's how I made it home the day mine broke.

 

[gimpyrobb]

Short shift kit DH?

 

[doghead]

Short? I do the best with what I have! It's not the lenght of your shifter, it's how you grind 'er gears!

 

[jim-m35a2]

Did you use a right or left hand socket on that tranny stub. Would a Husky extension work? Would it be better to use a bent socket extension for the later Deuces and a straight socket extension for the earlier Deuces. I guess it don't matter one way or the other, as I don't own any of the above anyway.
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