kelseydum
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I'm posting this in hopes that those of you having troubles with your ratchet shifters can find a cheap easy fix. First I was going to show how I modified an old Mr. Gasket ratchet shifter I got at the junk yard for $10 into a cool long handle rat rod shifter. The shifter was really loose and was not shifting gears very well... sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. After studying it for a while I realized there were three main points where the shifter need to be tight and braced well to shift correctly. I'll talk more on this in the next post... here's my shifter. Let me also note that the longer shaft makes it way easier to shift these ratchet shifters.
I want to use an HVLP spray gun for a shifter knob and am thinking of either welding a hose extension so I can use the normal hose fittings on the gun or welding a bolt with sleeve, but when I was thinking of the stance of the gun I was thinking a siphon feed would work better so I can mount it to where the handle sticks out instead of connecting at the handle (if that makes sense).
I want to use an HVLP spray gun for a shifter knob and am thinking of either welding a hose extension so I can use the normal hose fittings on the gun or welding a bolt with sleeve, but when I was thinking of the stance of the gun I was thinking a siphon feed would work better so I can mount it to where the handle sticks out instead of connecting at the handle (if that makes sense).
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