Over the last few weekends, I've been doing a couple of projects on my altered, add a shift light and and make a shifter for my powerglide.
On adding a shift light, got all the necessary items for adding a shift light on Vertex magneto motor, the trigger, all brackets and of coarse, the shift light. The only thing that has worked as advertised is the crank trigger, which is from Spud at FIE, everything else needed lots of work, the mounting bracket needed a bracket made so it would work and I'm still having issues with the new tach/shift light combo, tach won't show rpm if the rpm is below the shift set point and I'm on the second combo set, argh! Here's a picture of the FIE crank trigger and the brackets I had to make to hold the store-bought brackets:
The second part was making a new shifter, I had bought and tried a couple and wasn't happy with either one and instead of spending more money on a shifter that probably would not meet my needs, I decided to make my own. I spent a lot of time on my CAD designing the pattern, I wanted something simple but reliable and here's what I came up with, ii is still in the rough mode as I want to make a couple of passes before I finish it up, it's at the bottom of the picture:
The shifter has a spring-loaded nylon block that forces it into the correct position, I'm still working on the reverse lockout.
Anyway, that is what I've been doing on my altered