my n regd transit 2.5 diesel gearstick

[rhino3007]

i have recently bought a transit 2.5 dieel n regd with 5 speed box but i find it difficult to drive because the gear knob seems very far away and low does anyone do a gearstick extention for us short armed folk apart from that its great to drive this is my 4th tranny in 20 yrs I LOVE THEM prefer to drive it to my A6 AUDI 2.6 V6 help for my back please thankyou paul ps look fwd to all your chat and comradery

[madmark]

mate there is to bolts that hold it on ,you could remove it and have it extended my somebody who is good with metalwork!

[rhino3007]

thanks for that about gearstick extention cheers

[Luke]

the problem with extending the stick is the "throw" will be much more - if you catch my drift
what you could do with doing is also extending the distance from the pivot aswell that way the throw will be the same!!

[rhino3007]

does that mean that the extention piece would need to be bent towords me ie cranked towards me at an angle so when i go for 1st 3rd 5th the gear knob top wont be too far away ?

[Luke]

Try taking the gear knob off and putting a small pipe over the end to the length you want! - tape it on and see how it drives! its just you might find the distance between 1st and 2nd quite a long way - but if you can live with it then you should be ok!
if you crank it back towands you so 1st is nearer then 2nd will be further away - if you get what i mean!!

[rhino3007]

thanks for that idea i will try it and see i feel that there might be a market in after mkt gearstick extentions tor transits for short arms like me what do you think and is anyone out there an engineer who would like to make me one at 3 inch extention or telescopic lockable ?