I had to cut off the old t case shifter to make room for the twin sticks. I used the sticks out of an old dana 18. A chunk of thick angle iron bolted to the main tranny bolts with a quarter inch thick piece of flat iron welded to the angle iron provided an excellent mounting surface  for the sticks. I tried to drill through the stick to pin it to the rail but found I could not drill through the steel, so I ended up cutting off the pinned ends of the two rails in the old shifter and welded them to the ends of the sticks to provide machined ends with a hole. The extra half inch of length added to the bottom of the sticks make it a little harder to shift, but now I can say I have "quick throw twin sticks"!

Next, the tunnel. I cut an old CJ bumper in half, squared at one end to butt up against the under seat tool box and angled at the other to match the angle of the fire wall. Laid so the C channel flat side was facing out. About 24 inches across. Bolted to the floor and welded at each end. I covered it with some thicker sheet metal and bolted it to the bumper materiel. Now the tunnel will be where I have my feet when I'm driving, 4 inches higher than the floor. The brake booster pedal assy had to set higher to clear the engine so in place of extending the pedals (which would reduce the throw)  I decided to raise that area of the floor. When I do the interior I'll cut out the remaining few inches of the floor between the c channel and tranny and button it all up.

I'm not going into great detail about any one part of the build up just an overall discription of the the process.  The next thing to do was figure out the charging and ignition systems. Made a solid battery box, installed new cables. Took a six foot long piece of 1/4" x 4" flat steel to make a radiator hoop with an arc at the top to fit the inside of the hood. Welded brackets to the bottom and bolted it to the frame. Welded tabs on the hoop to mount an early 70's ford truck raidiator. I hope it will cool sufficently wiyh this narrow raidiator.

I used an existing, hole  about 5 inches down from the old location, through the frame with a spacer in the frame to insert a 1/2 inch grade 8 bolt with spacer block to mount front shocks. I'm not building a flex monster so I used stock schocks. No trick suspension setup for a false sence of security or super up and down wheel travel just a stock 3/4 ton spring setup. The only thing I did to modify the suspension is to take one lief out of all the spring packs and inboard the rear springs a few incher in the rear.

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