Evening, getting near the stage of wanting to close up the tunnel but before i can i need to sort out a lever for my quaife reverse box. Anyone got any pics of the mechanism you have used for changing gear? Also what have you used for the handle/knob of the lever.
Thanks in advance Greg

Me too.. need exactly the same

Hi Greg

Sounds like you are really making progress, let me know when you are around and I will pop up

Here is a pic of what I had a friend make up for mine:

Here is what we have done. We have ditched the original linkage as the lever was too far away from the driver when strapped in, have bolted a plate to the chassis tubes, added a long rod and now the lever is perfectly reachable and as an additional bonus, it now works the logical way round: forward for forward and back for reverse...
Hope this helps...
But make sure that you secure the whole quaife unit to the chassis properly, using the strongest available Loctite, as ours has now become loose even with Loctite and is a pig to get to...


Reverse lever

I used water jet cut aluminium 9own design) with spherical bearings at all ends (both lever and linkage). The upper part of the plate to which the lever is atatched is fixed to the chassis mid horizontal rail whilst the end of the linkage is atatched to thesmall lever supplied with the box. Its got a very prcise and positive feel

Weight including the leveradn knob as shown in teh picture is 600g

i have picture of the whole unit fitted in the car should you need
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Thanks guys for you help getting a few ideas now!

Dave will let you know next time were both out the barn will be good to meet up again! looking forward to seeing your finished build!
Greg