Slapstick action for your stock shifter
Thats a great video Magnum!! Your shifter gate looks to be functioning with no issues! Did you just use a file on the corners to smooth them out a bit? I also noticed in the vid that you had to depress the shifter button to shift from second into third...Even with the button depressed, It won't slip into neutral?
Yeah i used a small round file and rounded the edges of every corner, it takes a little time, but it did the trick. It seemed to me that the round edges would help the transition between the gears. versus the edge that might hang up if the shifter mechanism is adjusted wrong or if casting variations between the shifters is too large.
The shifter has an interesting operation and part of me wonders if the "jamming up" is from people not being use to the way it works. As it is a little different from what you might be use to
From park: Button is not fully released, you can just pull down all the way down to reverse, neutral, drive. At drive the button will full release. Press it down to go to 2nd, press again to 1st gear.
From 1st, button is not full released, push to 2nd, button will release and it will stop on the gate a 2nd. Then hold the button and shift to drive. With the button held, it will not be able to go past drive(3). From drive, you can go to neutral by just pushing the handle into N without pressing the button. From neutral you need to press the button and from reverse you need the button.
It takes a little getting use to, but as you see in the video, once you have it down, you wont even think about it. And really, is that any more awkward than how some ratchet shifters operate?
I havent bought the "shift-r-arm" thing, because i'm mixed on that part. I feel like the 2-3 shift would be easier to miss without a button to firmly press vs. pushing down on the handle itself.
