Hey everyone, Im on Spyder Build #2 and cant for the life of me remember how I ran my rods for my Jamar shifter. I know a lot of you dont like them, if they are sloppy, they ARE terrible. But my last one worked like a charm after dialing it in.
Anyway, If anyone out there still runs a Jamar setup and could snap a couple pictures of how you ran the rods from nose cone to shift box, it would be greatly appreciated!
On day 10 of the build and would hate to stall on this step.
Thanks!
Devin
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I had a Jamar on my old Vintage Spyder. It shifted great. I just did the cable shifter on the new car because it was available and certainly easier to initially set up.
About a foot directly behind the shifter box I had a heim joint(1/2" i.d.) that the shift rod slid through. Directly behind that was the first u-joint. The shift rod angled to the passenger side of the car at that point, so off-center through the firewall.
Just to the right of the bellhousing was a tube welded to the crossmember that the trans sits on. Just before the tube is u-joint number 2.
The rod runs straight back to the Jamar mechanism from the tube.
I wish I had some pictures of the setup for you but I don't. Is that a Beck you're building? Or a Thunder Ranch? Either way, the Beck boys can help you out if you can't sort it out. Or even Greg at Vintage Motorcars will know how to set one up, he's done enough of them.
Wow, that is exactly the type of info I needed, thank you very much. I was wondering if it needed 2 u joints or not. Now I know!
No problem.
I also booted my open u-joints, packed them with grease first. Then slid some skinny bicycle inner tube over, secured with a ty-rap on each end. Kept the dirt out and the lube in. Worked great.
Great idea.
