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Originally Posted by Flesh Eater
I actually found a case with a shifter. It’s $371, but whatever. They rated it grade A quality. We'll see when I go pick it up.
My biggest regret when I geared my Tracker transfer case was not adding twin sticks. So I was going to do it to this, but after seeing the Front Range sticks, they’ll be super tight next to the automatic transmission shifter.
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$371 isn't bad since everything else you'll find on ebay starts at $400 plus shipping. I really don't understand.. but whatever.. even at the local junkyards the pricing can vary from $115 up to like $750 and it seems to be driven by the model it comes out of.. It seems wrecked FJ's can be had for low $100-200, but as soon as you get up to a 4runner with the same manual case the price sky rockets to $600+ (even when they have higher miles).
From a packaging standpoint, it actually isn't terrible. It can be done, clearly.. since I'm running it, I just used flat steel bar to make the shifter extensions/shift them over so they package really nice above each other. The issue I ran into is trying to seal everything up nicely.. it's super easy to run a single shift boot and seal a single shifter... they have dual shifter boots, but because of where these come out under the auto shifter there is no way to fit it.. so i just ended up cutting 2 slits in a rubber pad and slid it over to cover the opening. The in-cabin has some shift boots now.. but they are far from perfect.. I'm in the middle of sourcing a replacement case with a stock shifter that i'll probably work on replacing over to in the next few months during the off-season.
