Rising from the dead.......with the magnum opus of DIY short shifters.
One.....two....three....four..... Four months is quite a hiatus but never the less my university stuff is done and I can finally enjoy my summer holiday. Recently I got the idea to make a short shifter for my '96 SAAB 900 ( 2nd gen ). At first I did what anyone would do and went to the Internet to see who has done what, and since I'm very budget minded I only looked for DIY mods. I did find a good one where a tube was used to raise the plastic bushing off the shifter housing and also sliding the pivot ball up the gear lever by however much you raised the plastic bushing. To me this looked like a great idea and I immediately went looking for a suitable tube. That's where I was met by the first hurdle. I couldn't find a tube of suitable size. I did, however, have a sheet of 2mm stainless steel. The idea was to make a tube out of the stainless steel and then proceed as usual. The problem I came into was that rolling the tube was not that easy, making the ends meet an...