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Dan Lineback
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Update on my shifter
Well, I decided over the weekend to pull the shifter out of my 94. Upon removal of the original unit, I found it was trashed. Once removed from the trans, the lever just flopped around freely in the housing with absolutley no resistance. I disassembled the shifter to find the chipped and distorted where the lever had been hitting it. The boot was torn, and the center of the retainer plate on the top was oval shaped, and pretty beat up. As for the shims/washers, I thought there were supposed to be 3 or 4 of them. All I found was 1, plus a couple of small deformed, twisted strips of metal that I believe to be the reminants of anouther shim. And the car only has 55K miles on it. Yeesh!!!
So after deciding that it would be futile to try to rebuild the stock shitter...I mean shifter, I decided to get the B&M Ripper. So I made a trip down to da 'hood (Barnett Performance in ATL) to pick it up. Upon opening the box, I see this beautiful blue aluminum shifter. I picked it up and checked its operation. TIGHT!!! I thought, "This is how it's supposed to feel." So I made my way back home to put it on. With the help of the excellent directions that came with it, I bolted it up and checked it out. It was so much smmother than the original unit. I decided to drive it around a little before I put the boot and plate back over the gaping hole in the floorpan. I made some of the most beautiful shifts I have ever made in that car!!! 1st-2nd and 2nd-3rd have the most noticable difference. There's no feeling around with the stick to find 3rd. It just goes right in!! And it is so much tighter than the OEM. On the old shifter, I could move the handle side to side and even up and down with it in gear, but there is no play in this shifter. The throws are noticably shorter, too, and the rows feel to be closer together, so there is less travel to get from gear to gear.
All I have left to do is re-attatch some wires in the console (damn alarm system--wires every where) that came disconnected and screw the top of the console back down.
I got some pics of my trashed shifter that I'll post when I get them developed.
Dan-man
Well, I decided over the weekend to pull the shifter out of my 94. Upon removal of the original unit, I found it was trashed. Once removed from the trans, the lever just flopped around freely in the housing with absolutley no resistance. I disassembled the shifter to find the chipped and distorted where the lever had been hitting it. The boot was torn, and the center of the retainer plate on the top was oval shaped, and pretty beat up. As for the shims/washers, I thought there were supposed to be 3 or 4 of them. All I found was 1, plus a couple of small deformed, twisted strips of metal that I believe to be the reminants of anouther shim. And the car only has 55K miles on it. Yeesh!!!
So after deciding that it would be futile to try to rebuild the stock shitter...I mean shifter, I decided to get the B&M Ripper. So I made a trip down to da 'hood (Barnett Performance in ATL) to pick it up. Upon opening the box, I see this beautiful blue aluminum shifter. I picked it up and checked its operation. TIGHT!!! I thought, "This is how it's supposed to feel." So I made my way back home to put it on. With the help of the excellent directions that came with it, I bolted it up and checked it out. It was so much smmother than the original unit. I decided to drive it around a little before I put the boot and plate back over the gaping hole in the floorpan. I made some of the most beautiful shifts I have ever made in that car!!! 1st-2nd and 2nd-3rd have the most noticable difference. There's no feeling around with the stick to find 3rd. It just goes right in!! And it is so much tighter than the OEM. On the old shifter, I could move the handle side to side and even up and down with it in gear, but there is no play in this shifter. The throws are noticably shorter, too, and the rows feel to be closer together, so there is less travel to get from gear to gear.
All I have left to do is re-attatch some wires in the console (damn alarm system--wires every where) that came disconnected and screw the top of the console back down.
I got some pics of my trashed shifter that I'll post when I get them developed.
Dan-man