Has anyone removed or know how to remove just the stock shift rod from shifter assembly. It appears to be a press fit? I just want to remove the piece that the shift **** threads onto. Is this possible or does the entire shifter assembly need to be removed? Thanks!

 

Should have mentioned this is on a manual transmission.

 

More trouble than it's worth. Much easier to replace the shifter.

 

You need to remove the entire shifter to do any typen of work to it. I am shortening a shifter now and will be doing more in the future.

 

Hey looks like you're close to me. I'm in Temecula area. I guess no one has removed the rod from the base.......Are you cutting your stock shifter down? I'm considering doing the same thing.

 

I did it per guidance of other forum members a long time ago, but knowingly destroyed a portion beneath the threaded shaft in the process. Indeed it is a press fit, but I have no idea what would be needed to undo the fitting while keeping each individual part in re-usable form. Here's a quick synopsis, with some pics!

The shifter has 2 different vertical shafts, one that fits inside the other, as shown below.



As you can see in the preceding pic, I cut axially along the base of the black portion, and bent it outward. Even with the cut, it took some big time prying to get that lower portion off of the press fit that it had along the brass-colored cylindrical portion. Also, note that I used a cutting wheel, so when it penetrated the black part, it also cut slightly into the brass part, but that didn't matter.

Next step was to cut the threaded portion away from the wider base.



Next step is to get a tap and die, and thread the inner diameter of the bottom of the threaded black piece ....



....followed by threading the outer diameter of the brass post....



Now, with the new threads, screw the black piece back on to the brass piece, and line up the vertical slot in the black piece correctly so that the shift **** will line up properly when re-installed.



Put it all back together, get you a fancy shift boot and shift **** from Vette Essentials, and here's what it looks like:



Disclaimer: the shortened shifter I have is pretty decent for sake of shifting. However, it buzzes some at certain levels of acceleration. I have tried a couple of the noted fixes for this and they have reduced the buzz some, but not eliminated it. So, evidently the coupling that I destroyed between the 2 OEM pieces provided some level of dampening which is now gone due to my direct-connection of the newly-created threads.

 

THANKS Steve!

 

Very interesting but, now you understand how much dampening the stock shifter provided. And because performance aftermarket shifters don't have this dampening they produce the noise many complain about.

It's a trade off between performance or less noise.

 

Some do, some don't. A lot depends on the **** used. I have Hurst with ZERO buzz/noise. BTW, I'm using a billet aluminum ****.

 

I understand that. I was mostly talking about with the stock ****. I have a Hurst and use an MGW pistol grip to remove most of the rattle. I also use other fixes for the noise. But I would never go back to the stock setup.

 

Good point. I actually bought a metal **** over a year ago, and it's still sitting in my cargo space area b/c I couldn't bring myself to lose the Vette Essentials shift ****.