Part 13: Four Plus One Equals a Highway Cruiser

We fabricated this bracket that mounts to the rear-shifter mountinglocation and goes forward to where the shifter needs to mount. Thebracket is made of two pieces of steel: One is 93/4x4x3/8 inches, andthe other is 4x31/2x3/4 inches. The 3/4-inch piece is welded to the backof the 3/8-inch piece to space the 3/8-inch piece from the housing.Three mounting holes are then drilled through the two pieces, and thebracket is bolted to the housing. Three holes also need to be drilledand tapped in front of the rear mounting location for the shifterbracket.

It's a good thing we didn't mount our shifter bracket to the frontmounting location, because it had to go. The front-shifter mountlocation hit the upper crossmember, and we had to remove some of it.

We only had to remove one mounting hole and a small portion of webbingbetween the holes.

We also needed to lower the tranny mount location 5/8 inch. We cut thetranny crossmember and welded a strip of 1-inch steel on both sides.When doing this, remember to ensure all driveline angles are withinspec.

With the crossmember and the shifter bracket made, everything fit inplace.

The GV unit comes with a new yoke for the driveshaft. The yoke uses a1350 universal joint, and our new driveshaft measures 31 inches fromuniversal, center-to-center.