Center console shifter

[Kirbie]

Has anyone done a 03-06 shifter from the colum to middle console mod? if so what did you use or link pictures

 

[Tonyrodz]

I've never seen that, but that would be pretty damn cool. sub'd

 

[Fosscore]

Did some Google work and found these threads worth perusing at your leisure.

6-Speed Manual Transmission Swap - Avalanche
http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/index.php?topic=90504.0


and a bunch of pictures here, some with additional links.

 

[Kirbie]

wanted keep the console maybe where the bigger slot is like where a 4x4 would be.,. in the side.. so curious bout ideas. and wonder bout the cable or how the cable front the tranny to shifter.

 

[Kirbie]

like wonder is the h2 same chassis as Tahoe?? so can take center console from the 02 H2 and start the swap?

 

[DougAMiller]

Did this in my '05 Tahoe. Used a Trailblazer shifter from the same year. The cable can be detached from the column and rerouted to the console, it connected to the Trailblazer shifter with no modification. I just had to fabricate a bracket to mount the shifter in the console. I just cut the bottom out of the left-hand cupholder for the shifter to come through. The other modifications were to install a manual transmission pick up truck column cover to eliminate the hole in the steering column, and since my Tahoe has the Bose system I had to slightly modify the subwoofer to make space for the shifter.

 

[Kirbie]

Awesome info man? Do u have any pictures of it?mine is 03 with bose as well so wonder if the trailblazer would work as well.. what the bracket look like?

 

[Rocket Man]

I wanna see pictures too @DougAMiller .

 

[DougAMiller]

Here is a picture of the console and steering column. I don't have pics of the bracket, but it was just 1"x1/8" steel bar bent 90° at each end and bolted across the inside of the console.

 

[DougAMiller]

Here is a picture of a console I found online with drawings of what I did. The green rectangles are the two 1"x1/8" bars that I mounted the shifter to, and the red hatched area is what I removed from the subwoofer enclosure. The subwoofer is ABS, so I cut out the space that I needed and then used MEK to solvent-weld part of the removed plastic over the opening to seal the enclosure.