Thanks for the suggestions on the steering shaft guys, I appreciate it. Pretty sure we have a solution now by using another a combination of Volvo and Range Rover parts!
Getting very close to finishing the mockup stage of the build now. My friend Stuart spent a good few hours coming up with a solution for the remote shifter assembly. As you can see, the stock setup features a cast aluminum bracket and steel linkage assembly going into the box: This is how GM do it, but Ford do it similarly.... either way the shifter is too far back here:
Here is the stock linkage and shifter. The stock shifter can be re-used, but the linkage needs to be heavily shortened and a new housing made.
Now heavily shortened, and adjustable:
Time to machine some alloy...
Now sitting in situ:
Very custom shortened bracket assembly (unfinished/painted). It uses the stock mounting tabs on the rear extension housing of the gearbox and clamps onto a casting boss on the back of the trans for further support and rigidity. It's a combination of mild steel and machined 2011 alloy billet with some machined Delrin Polyoxymethylene bushes, since the rubber GM ones fell to pieces:
Sits very nice in the car. These TR6060 transmissions are perfect for the Volvo 240 in that the shifter can be moved to wherever you need it to be. Using a VT-VZ T56 transmission would have put the shifter too far back
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