What do you call this part?

[hydromike]

So, I feel a bit silly. I can MAKE the part I'm asking about, but if it's a very common item that's able to be purchased, I'll just buy the darn thing. I'm wondering what the name of the brass part is on the "easy shifters" that Mr. Clark sells on his website. Here's the picture that he offers on his website.



I actually HAVE these shifters on the 980, but everything else I own could benefit from them. The original Hustler's "easy shifters" basically use the same thing, but I actually like these better. I've been all over McMaster-Carr (they have a decent search engine set up on their Site...), but I can't find the item.

Again, I know I can make this thing, but if it's already available out there, it's likely dirt cheap...

Thanks in advance...

[spud9slim18]

could you replace the brass parts with rod end bearings ? just a thought s9/tim

[hydromike]

I certainly could, but this would require eliminating the springs. The springs are really what make the easy shift "easy shift". They keep force on the shifter as the teeth on the shift collar and drum line up. It wouldn't be a big deal on a twin shifter setup, but my eventual goal is to have them on the Attex eight wheeler. I'm not going the twin stick on that thing. Yet.

[North Country Tough]

Darn it Iam in brain block curse you hydro,use to buy them type of things eons ago for my hurst shifter only difference they were threaded for adjustment where those are smooth bore,names on the tip of my tongue but not coming out,Stupid old age.

[MAX IV Mark]

I certainly could, but this would require eliminating the springs. The springs are really what make the easy shift "easy shift". They keep force on the shifter as the teeth on the shift collar and drum line up. It wouldn't be a big deal on a twin shifter setup, but my eventual goal is to have them on the Attex eight wheeler. I'm not going the twin stick on that thing. Yet.

i think you misunderstood what he was saying. I believe he ment put the unthreaded eye part on the shifting rod between the springs, so instead of the rod end being pushed in and out it is pushed up and down. that was the way i understood it.

[hydromike]

...use to buy them type of things eons ago for my hurst shifter only difference they were threaded for adjustment where those are smooth bore.

Exactly. I actually HAVE a bunch of those "thingies" on old shifters, but they're a might large for the application. Let me know when you come up with it, old man.

(That bum Racerone3 just mailed me a picture of a set he made up in the time it took me to type that message.... what a braggart.)

i think you misunderstood what he was saying. I believe he ment put the unthreaded eye part on the shifting rod between the springs, so instead of the rod end being pushed in and out it is pushed up and down. that was the way i understood it.

OH! That makes a bit more sense... I had it locked in my head that it was actually using a rod end as a rod end. Thanks Mark....

[Mike]

Try searching for "shifter rod adjusting button".

[Robinhood02]

i know those little brass thingys as "trunion connectors" but they may have a different name down there

[racerone3]

I set out to do this mod on all my machines at some point over the summer and got derailed for some un-remembered reason. What I do remember is that after about a week of searching for "those thingies" I gave up and settled on the plan to use a Heim joint with a nut above and below the diamond shifter. The shifter rods would run through the eye of the heim with springs on either side. The cheapest 5/16" heim's I could find (of any sort of quality) were ~$7. I made 2 of "those thingies" today in about 10 min. tomorrow I'll make them for the rest of the machines... then Mike will find them for under 50c each

[amphibious drew]

TRUNNION PIN KIT FOR THROTTLE ACCELERATOR CABLE Sprite, Midget & Morris Minor

that looks like it, but maybe a different size.

[micmac]

Mike

The first thing I thought was they are the guts from a brass plumbing valve

[thebuggyman1]

The springs are really what make the easy shift "easy shift".

So what were you planning on for springs?......and with all the machines you have...you must be buying them by the 100 pack.

[mustangwagz]

Link Pin..Upper or Lower link pin may work. goto tractor supply and check em out. MOST are huge, however, ill bet you can find something to work at tractor supply. they gots tons of stuff!! And if that dont work, Make your own!! haha. Just get some damn Square Stock or Round stock, Drill it for clearance, then weld a bolt on the bottom and TADAH! done!

[Dan67]

When I was looking for a set of "easy shifters" for my hustler I called Richard Relics. All he had left was a single used pair for the hustlers. When I asked about the max shifters he explained that he contracted a local machine shop to make several hundred of them.

[JoeMeg]

Mike,

That's called a Do-Hickey

Joe.