HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation
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Burning Brakes
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HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation
Hey guys,
I'm installing my new shifter tommorow morning and have decided to try and combat the rattling noise that comes so frequently with the shifter. I have read in previous posts of people using Dynomat around the shifter, and rubber inserts, but has anyone REALLY had any success in doing so? What should I use to quiet it? Any tricks would be appreciated!!! :cheers:
I'm installing my new shifter tommorow morning and have decided to try and combat the rattling noise that comes so frequently with the shifter. I have read in previous posts of people using Dynomat around the shifter, and rubber inserts, but has anyone REALLY had any success in doing so? What should I use to quiet it? Any tricks would be appreciated!!! :cheers:
Racer
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From: Huntington Beach CA
Re: HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation (365ZUM)
I did one about a year ago. It rattles. I think the trick (I didn't know at the time) is to put back as many of the little shims from your stock shifter. They go in front and behind the pivot assembly that set down into a receiver in the top of the tranny. The rattle comes from the ends of that cylinder vibrating against the tranny. seems like there are plastic or teflon brackets that the pivot shaft go into and then you shim outside of them. The shifter might be a little stiff on the left/right movement at first. This is as best I can remember. Maybe some others have more info.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Jamison PA
Re: HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation (KLLRVET)
From what others say, the best remedy for the Ripper, is the new Hurst! :D
Tony
Tony
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From: Beltsville Maryland
Re: HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation (365ZUM)
As was already mentioned the brass "buttons" on the shifter are too tight in the shifter support bracket.This was the case with my Ripper.I ground down the buttons so that they did not prutrude beyond the nylon insert.
I had no rattle.
Plus,I inserted two small nylon washers between the two universals that are pinned together with the supplied roll pin.IMO,this is the real trick fix.
Phil C
I had no rattle.
Plus,I inserted two small nylon washers between the two universals that are pinned together with the supplied roll pin.IMO,this is the real trick fix.
Phil C
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Brett Foote
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Re: HELP!!! B&M RIPPER Installation (wheelsup)
Well, when mine went in I ground down the brass buttons.
I also lubed it all up like crazy.
But a got a 3rd gear rattle after about 8 months (actually I may have had it all along but you "don't hear it" until I read all these posts about rattling and started LISTENING for it). Dumb butt move.
Anyway, I suspect this suggestion is the key since grinding brass and lubing did nothing for me. Wish I had done this====>
"Plus,I inserted two small nylon washers between the two universals that are pinned together with the supplied roll pin.IMO,this is the real trick fix.
"
Justin
Here's how it went for me 1 year ago: http://www.snowdirt.com/corvetteshifter.html
92 6-speed, ripper, gs brakes
I also lubed it all up like crazy.
But a got a 3rd gear rattle after about 8 months (actually I may have had it all along but you "don't hear it" until I read all these posts about rattling and started LISTENING for it). Dumb butt move.
Anyway, I suspect this suggestion is the key since grinding brass and lubing did nothing for me. Wish I had done this====>
"Plus,I inserted two small nylon washers between the two universals that are pinned together with the supplied roll pin.IMO,this is the real trick fix.
"
Justin
Here's how it went for me 1 year ago: http://www.snowdirt.com/corvetteshifter.html
92 6-speed, ripper, gs brakes