[L5000s]

Originally Posted by davecymru

2nd job was to sort out the gear selector so that i could get it into reverse without having to replace all of the linkages.

So I modified the existing steel selector plate to get all of the pathways working and i quite like the angled dog-leg to reverse. I'm sure I've seen it on other old cars, now i know why!



Obviously the final one won't just have a big triangular hole for reverse and rather than try and weld a bit back into this, i happened to find a plate of 8mm aluminium in the odds-n-sods pile, so i thought "why not make a new one, how hard can it be!" VERY, as it turns out!

So starting with this:



trace the outline onto it, roughly cut it out and drill holes at all of the extremities to get this:



Then attack it with an angle grinder, dremel and a frankly absurd amount of filing to get it this far:



It's not finished yet, but i'm shattered now and the blister that all of the filing caused has just burst, so that's it for today!

thats why they have invented machine shops for Dave, but well done for the effort