Electronic Shift NP203/NP205 Doubler

[kavesman1]

Hello everyone. Hope your Thanksgiving goes well. This will be my first posting on this site. I'm currently working on my dream truck build...a 1991 V3500 Crew Cab Cheyenne 4x4. Found it 2 years ago on FB marketplace and couldn't walk away from it. It's in rough shape, and it will be built from the frame up.

Anyway...as the title of this post suggests, I've been researching a way to remotely control a NP203/205 doubler. I honestly don't want to use air shift solenoids for the mechanism. In my search through the net, i possible have found a way to add a particular set of t.case shift motors and the control system for it. The parts for the system have already been made by one oem company. I've started to gather the parts to test the idea. But I'd like to get everyone opinion on the control panel for it. Here's a render pic of the Mark 1 Control panel for the system...

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[Strick]

Welcome to the site & let me express how envious I am of what would also be my dream truck. As for the old cast iron cases, I'd leave them to be shifted manually. Newer aluminum cases get by with shift motors, but I'm not a fan due to lack of reliability. I'm old school & love twisting hubs & shifting levers.

HS

 

[nvrenuf]

I just converted the electric shift nv273 in my Dodge to manual because of reliability issues.

I have a 203/205 Doubler and there’s not a lot of room around the 205 rails and 203 lever. If you were able to fit 3 actuators (+ brackets) there you’d almost certainly have to run single exhaust down the driver side.

 

[SquareRoot]

Shift levers are manly. Push buttons are not.

 

[TotalyHucked]

Yeah, I'm gonna have to side with these guys. Even if you figure out a way to make it work, it essentially will be cobbled together with parts from a few different OEMs and who's to say how reliable it will be or how well it will all fit under the floor. Worst case, you could use the air actuators and activate them with switches in the cab.