I still don't buy it. I can't see it working the way it's meant to. Somebody needs to break out the Lego technic and make it.

@Dyane61976
Like the pics, do you have more, could you email large ones.
Also which magazine.

The photos I posted were taken off the net - some guy building a Dakar 2cv.
http://deuchescompetion.canalblog.com/a ... 67398.html

I'm standing by what I said yesterday. When using a single rod linkage the 2 movements it transmits are not forwards/backwards and left/right, but forwards/backwards and rotation. If you move the gear knob to the left, the rotation is anticlockwise, and if that rotation is transmitted directly to the gearboxes then it's 1st/rev at the front and 4th at the rear.

However I've been imagining the linkage attached at both ends with a single 'clevis' type joint, where exactly the same degrees of rotation are transmitted between the levers and rods. Much like the linkage in my car. http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv22 ... C11160.jpg

I have just seen a way to do it with ball joints though. Perhaps this is what other people were thinking of.



Personally I'm not keen on the vertical sections of linkage, Although they allow you to vary the ratio of rotational movement, I think they introduce too much flex, the front section is easy enough to use clevises though, which i think makes for a more positive change.



One little issue is that the fixed bushes of the rear section may want to move up and down slightly, depending on what was used as the ball joints.

I know, I know it is not a 2 engine but great fun to watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfcQ-7hI ... zdpJM3gEPA

Were there any 2Cvs converted for disabled drivers using pneumatics or the like ? If so, a second system could be reversed for the rear engine etc.

There's a few 2cvcross cars that've been converted although only to negate the use of foot pedals. The throttle and brakes were on the steering wheel and the pneumatic clutch was operated via a micro switch in the gearknob, when you touched the gearknob it disengaged the clutch. It was run from a pneumatic pump off of a truck thàt was run from the alternator belt. Pneumatic actuators are cheaply available and would be a more modern solution.

I like to think that you could make a system similar to a telephone. The mouthpiece is forced to move and creates an electronic pulse that makes the speaker move the opposite way. (I realise this is a simplified version of events). I reckon, and I've no real in-depth knowledge of this, that some sort of variable sliding resistor (like you get in a scalextric hand throttle) in fact, two of them one in the x axis and one in the y axis, could be used to move two actuators on the rear gearbox. It's not as beautiful as a mechanical linkage or as elegant but doing it with electronics means no engine movement or crash damage will affect it. It's perhaps a more modern solution?

I could never be arsed to sit and make something like that work, but I'm sure it would.

1-2-shift.......

So youv'e got me there. 3 double pneumatic cilinders, each for one slider in the gearbox and and a controller of mine would do.
Controller sends current to lpg valves 6 pieces, little programming if then else and hey presto
automatic gearbox.......

Shit Russel I'm lost again.....

I'm not clever enough to think about moving the selector rods independently but that would be much better than my idea which was to simply use the 'sender' at a fixed point on the front box and use the actuators on the same point on the rear box.