Slow355 B&m working with factory shift lights !!!!

[VSClubby355Participant View build HERE Member since: April 26, 2016 Posts: 29]

Somehow I think I’ve seen that shifter somewhere before

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So did a little bit more as have been busy with work, i took some others advice and sound deadened the box with spray on sound deadener. Also fitted couple of grommits in it for cable and dakota wires.  Also got a mate to weld bolts to box so can just place the shifter on it and throw some nuts on rather than jugling nuts and bolts from inside/outside trans tunnel. As you can see i am bored most of this probably not necessary haha

I put the cable through a heat proof hose, on the of chance it hits something hot, also ran the wires for the dakota unit through it.

Fitted the drop down box on a bed of sika, looks semi professional …..maybe

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Looks good mate, I used heat proof sleeving on mine too, there’s a lot of hot stuff down there, as you you say no sense it hitting one of the pipes and melting through.  Looks neat.

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So running cable was a pain in the ass to get it to sit nice but got there in the end. Ran into a few problems with set up as the dakota unit has to mount to same pan bolts as the cable bracket, so have decided to mount dakota unit at back of pan and make a longer connecting rod, as its simply a lever that is moved like a slave from the gear box leaver, u then program the brain of it, simple.

Had an issue with setting up cable for first gear. U set shifter in first gear and gear selector infirst gear and adjust cable to this point. Then unhook and put gearbox and shifter in park positions, holes now no longer lined up were out by 5mm. If u drove like this would kill box. Started double checking everything that was all 4l60e compatible brackets etc

Did some googling and came across few yanky guys with same problems. Was quite simple, i had mounted cable bracket to wrong side of shifter housing, thus changing cable length by 5mm meaning when set up for first gear would be out 5mm for park. Swapped around and its perfect set up. When in park or first pin slips out of hole easily so this means its properly adjusted.

The instructions are pain in the ass the blown up images are not very clear and the step by step jumps around a bit, but got there in the end!

Tomorrow ill make new dakota bracket etc set it up then to start doing led installation for gear selector lights

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Nice write up mate, getting close by the sounds of it.

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So got it all in and just will not adjust correctly, dakota is all calibrated and working perfectly, made a custom bracket etc. So got the guru around to slide it through the gears whilst i played with adjuster…….more googling. Guru spun the gear selector leaver around backwards and got it working 99%. Then i noticed that with 4l60e bracket cable doesn’t run in line with box.  Can see in pic if its hooked to selector cable will be on angle

But its the 4l60e bracket,then ebay b&m 4l60 e bracket and different bracket came up. It is a bracket for 4l60e that has the prdn switch on it. Guru explained that switch goes over the shifter on side of box they were in vts etc.

I dive under ute, my ute is a vs 98 model!!!

Has a vt box in it minus the switch…..wrong bracket fml can i have 3hours of my life back

 

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Its certainly testing you!

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

That’s what u get for putting ratchet shifter in with a fully automatic box 

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by  cava454.

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

cava454 wrote:

That’s what u get for putting ratchet shifter in with a fully automatic box

At least he is actually working on his build

[cava454Moderator 93 VR BT1 View build HERE Member since: February 20, 2015 Posts: 2 390]

Good things take time.

Im working on it…

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

cava454 wrote:

That’s what u get for putting ratchet shifter in with a fully automatic box

Yea because working on it has been such a pain, its so cold in my garage and so far from home…….

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Thats one very cool set up buddy ☺.  Be nice with a kermit green Lambo there 

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

For now ill pretend this is a lambo……..goals we all need goals

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[Anonymous View build HERE Member since: January 1, 1970 Posts: 0]

You could build a pretty sweet Commodore for the cost of a Lambo. Just saying 

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

I reckon if you can afford a lambo, you also an have a cool commy 

[HDN05LParticipant Canberra ACTVS Olympic Edt 383 stroker Ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 289]

Hey mate any updates with the shifter install? What bracket did you end up getting?

[Slow355Participant Victoriahectic spec 355 vs ss ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 322]

So got the correct late model 4l60e bracket, was getting all the gears except wasn’t grabbing neutral from D properly. In pic you can see the dekota mounted on top of bracket, has an arm on side of the box with a linkage back to the dekota unit, took literally minutes to set up.

After hours of playing around looked closely at the shifter its self and noticed the reverse lock out was stopping it clicking into neutral properly. So two minutes with the grinder and its all fixed.

So started on the LED display for shift positions, cut the bottom out of the original shifter display shroud. Cut up some alloy and drilled holes in it to house the LED’s that will be my shift positions running off the dekota unit.

I then mounted it into the original position. The LEDS should sit just below the little shift position windows. May have to put little dividers in to stop the LEDS lighting up every window instead of the 1,2,3,D,N,R,P individually.

Now just have to adjust the black slider that goes around the original shifter so that it fits around the B&M shifter, also need to wire up LEDS

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by  Slow355.

munch munch ls1s for lunch
Best 1/4 mile 13.1@105mph 60ft-1.8sec Reaction time .8 sec 0/100-4.8sec

[ImmortalityParticipant 97 HSV Senator 185i 02 VX L67 Calais View build HERE Member since: August 31, 2015 Posts: 535]

Almost there now

[HDN05LParticipant Canberra ACTVS Olympic Edt 383 stroker Ute View build HERE Member since: March 2, 2015 Posts: 289]

Top effort. looking forward to seeing it finished. Do you have the part number of the 4l60e bracket you ended up using?

[VRSenator065Participant Adelaide SAVR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project) View build HERE Member since: February 17, 2015 Posts: 5 777]

Looking great, I actually had some rubber grommets and put them around the lights, so when the plate goes on it stops them lighting up the one alongside.  Just an idea, it did work though, fat o rings would also do the same job

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