ThaHarvester
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Hey folks,
Just wondering if anyone has found any good short shifters around for a fairly decent price. I recently bought a short shifter off eBay for my car, but when I went to install it there were a few issues with it. The ball joints + cups from the factory shifter moved freely around, and the cups slid in and out of the shifter linkages easily when I took the shifter out. The cups were also firmly clipped around the ball joints. However the aftermarket one seemed to be very poorly engineered - the cups were very stiff on the ball joints (even when I greased em' em), and the cups had to be jammed into the shifter linkages, and were very hard to extract once they were in place. Moreover, and I would like to know if anyone else has had this issue - when shifting into 3rd and 5th gear, the shifter seemed to over-extend and simply popped out of the cup (this is the lower linkage I am talking about). Obviously - not good. I am glad I was not driving when this happened, otherwise it would have rendered the car undriveable. I had to remove the shifter (which was a task itself as the cups were jammed into the shifter linkages due to seemingly poor design). I'll attach the link to the eBay listing however most of the short shift kits seem to be the same. Also (sorry this is a bloody long post), there were two positions where the shifter shaft could be bolted down with a grub screw to the main ball pivot - I imagine to adjust the throw of the shifter. However when I attempted to use the upper position on the shaft (which I believe would shorten the throw), the bottom shifter linkage was hitting against the main shifter body/brace, as the linkage was being pushed down further than usual. Is this just very poorly engineered or am I missing something - I don't understand how they could get this so wrong in so many ways . . .
The images I have seem to be too large to upload - if people want them for reference I will downscale them and upload them.
Hey folks,
Just wondering if anyone has found any good short shifters around for a fairly decent price. I recently bought a short shifter off eBay for my car, but when I went to install it there were a few issues with it. The ball joints + cups from the factory shifter moved freely around, and the cups slid in and out of the shifter linkages easily when I took the shifter out. The cups were also firmly clipped around the ball joints. However the aftermarket one seemed to be very poorly engineered - the cups were very stiff on the ball joints (even when I greased em' em), and the cups had to be jammed into the shifter linkages, and were very hard to extract once they were in place. Moreover, and I would like to know if anyone else has had this issue - when shifting into 3rd and 5th gear, the shifter seemed to over-extend and simply popped out of the cup (this is the lower linkage I am talking about). Obviously - not good. I am glad I was not driving when this happened, otherwise it would have rendered the car undriveable. I had to remove the shifter (which was a task itself as the cups were jammed into the shifter linkages due to seemingly poor design). I'll attach the link to the eBay listing however most of the short shift kits seem to be the same. Also (sorry this is a bloody long post), there were two positions where the shifter shaft could be bolted down with a grub screw to the main ball pivot - I imagine to adjust the throw of the shifter. However when I attempted to use the upper position on the shaft (which I believe would shorten the throw), the bottom shifter linkage was hitting against the main shifter body/brace, as the linkage was being pushed down further than usual. Is this just very poorly engineered or am I missing something - I don't understand how they could get this so wrong in so many ways . . .
The images I have seem to be too large to upload - if people want them for reference I will downscale them and upload them.
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