Problems with shifter
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2005
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From: Green Valley Arizona
Just wanted to jump in here....there is a spring on the side of the shift handle or lever. This pushes the shift handle towards netural and is held in with one screw. Make sure that this spring is still there as well.
Another good shifter alignment tool is a kitchen or butter knife, cut to length...pretty cheap too. Just don't use the "good" ones or the wife will kill you.
LannyL81
Another good shifter alignment tool is a kitchen or butter knife, cut to length...pretty cheap too. Just don't use the "good" ones or the wife will kill you.
LannyL81
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2005
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From: Midlothian VA
Originally Posted by LannyL81
Just wanted to jump in here....there is a spring on the side of the shift handle or lever. This pushes the shift handle towards netural and is held in with one screw. Make sure that this spring is still there as well.
Another good shifter alignment tool is a kitchen or butter knife, cut to length...pretty cheap too. Just don't use the "good" ones or the wife will kill you.
LannyL81
Another good shifter alignment tool is a kitchen or butter knife, cut to length...pretty cheap too. Just don't use the "good" ones or the wife will kill you.
LannyL81
The stock 4-speed shifter installed on 68-81 Corvettes have no such spring for side loading. The only spring in an OEM 68-81 shifter is the one that holds the t-handle down.
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speak of the devil!!! i had the exact same problem. the rods from the shifter to tranny were NOT the problem.. no rubbing. It got worse and worse... had to jam it to get out of the reverse gate... until i was downtown about a mile from my place in vermont, backed out of a parking space....
IT GOT STUCK IN THE REVERSE GATE.
I tried for 45 minutes until my arm was tired. I BACKED out onto my street, backed up the dirt road, backed up the driveway, backed into the garage. Tore the shifter apart.... 31 years of rust and crap (after all, the linkages are fairly exposed.
Hurst comp. plus shifter.... greatest investment possible. shorter shifts, no T-handle, and the reverse gate is spring loaded. you push it to the left to get into first, and push it hard left to get reverse (it "clicks" ever so cleanly into the gate, and springs back out when you put it back in neutral.) Get the hurst. you'll love it.
IT GOT STUCK IN THE REVERSE GATE.
I tried for 45 minutes until my arm was tired. I BACKED out onto my street, backed up the dirt road, backed up the driveway, backed into the garage. Tore the shifter apart.... 31 years of rust and crap (after all, the linkages are fairly exposed.
Hurst comp. plus shifter.... greatest investment possible. shorter shifts, no T-handle, and the reverse gate is spring loaded. you push it to the left to get into first, and push it hard left to get reverse (it "clicks" ever so cleanly into the gate, and springs back out when you put it back in neutral.) Get the hurst. you'll love it.
