Will this work... shift linkage?

[1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2]

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Imagine a shift lever, and the lever points up instead of down. If I make another lever to attach to current one, will it still work right?

Black = shifter shaft into transmission
Red = current shift lever
Blue = new lever

 

[dremu]

We talking about an auto or a stick? Assuming it's an auto, then you just gotta rotate the shaft, doesn't matter how you do it so much.

Also, why do you want to shift the truck from underneath?

-- A

 

[1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2]

It's an automatic. A Ford AOD actually.

To rotate the shift lever 180* I would need to remove the valve body as part of the process. I'm just looking for an easier way to do it by attaching another lever to the current one that will connect to the shift cable the way I need it to. It's more of a physics question than a technical question, and you guys around here are pretty sharp about this kinda stuff.

And I spend most of my time under the truck, I might as well shift it from under there too, lol.

 

[dremu]

It's an automatic. A Ford AOD actually.

To rotate the shift lever 180* I would need to remove the valve body as part of the process. I'm just looking for an easier way to do it by attaching another lever to the current one that will connect to the shift cable the way I need it to. It's more of a physics question than a technical question, and you guys around here are pretty sharp about this kinda stuff.

And I spend most of my time under the truck, I might as well shift it from under there too, lol.

Oh, sure. You just wanna pull the thing instead of shifting it. You'd want the new lever to be well-attached to the old one, particularly at the center where the shaft is.

As long as the shaft turns the right way (i.e. clockwise or anticlockwise) you're fine. I assume your drawing is not necessarily to scale and you won't have a 2' long lever sticking out the bottom of the truck

-- A

 

[1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2]

Of course it's to scale... I used a very high tech CAD program to draw it. And if it takes a 2' lever to shift it, then yes - I will have a 2' lever

And thanks for the confirmation that the physics of the concept will work. Now on to the hardest part of all - implementation of the concept.