Thread: Breakdowns on the road w/o correct tools to fix

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A friend and I were going one state over to his parents house for Thanksgiving. He recently put a body lift on his pickup and he had to weld in an extension for his shifter. We were a couple hours out of town in the middle of the desert when he went to downshift for a hill. He looked over at me and was like "Oh shit dude!" I said "what's up", thinking he heard a noise in the motor or something. He handed me the shifter and we looked at each other for a minute like what the hell are we gonna do now. We coasted over on the shoulder and started to check it out. Luckily it broke right where the extension was half-ass welded in and there was about an inch and a half still sticking up. We rooted around in the bed of the truck and came up with a deepwell 9/16 socket and a 6" extension. I plugged them together and slid it down over what was left of the shifter handle and away we went. A couple more hours to his house and all the way back home. We'd keep laughing every so often when one of us would look down at that socket and extension sticking up out of the floor. I still call it his Craftsman short throw shifter!