My buddy had an interesting idea yesterday. I've been contemplating swapping a stick into one a my trucks and said something about a hand clutch, he said he'd seen one where they ran a pull a cable up over the door frame kind of like a semi truck air horn pull cord.

I kind of like the idea but I'm not so sure about the practicality. I was curious if anyone's ever done or seen this?
Thoughts/opinions?

 

IMO

Stick to factory designs with factory parts, or after market parts that follow OEM practices with OEM or better quality.

Clutch reliability is a safety issue. Having something oddball makes it unsafe for other drivers, and unsafe if you become disabled while driving and a passenger has to try to assume control.

A hand clutch of this configuration further requires one hand come off the wheel to clutch and one hand comes off to shift. That leaves zero hands on the wheel, again unsafe.

Don't reinvent something that does not need reinventing.

 

Like I said. Interesting idea but not practical. Lol I was just wondering if anyone's actually seen someone do it. I'd like to see someone try to drive it honestly.

I also wasn't saying I was considering doing it. I'm going to set up a hand shift similar to a scuicide shifter on a bike. If done correctly it would be reliable, fairly unique, and still very functional. It all depends if I feel like playing with it before I swap a cummins in. That's going to have a foot pedal for sure, to much power to risk an accidental clutch drop. Lol

 

Someone would get their foot tangled up in it, lol