In the shifter area its a great opportunity to replace several items, its a perfect example of while your in there.
Parts
Tools
Parts goodies
Remove the exhaust,
We have the race skids cross brace and it interfered with the removal of the exhaust.
mark the orientation on your guibo before you remove it.
Success!
Now heat up the studs and hit them with a Big fucking hammer (BFH)
Once the studs come off and fly across the room, rotate the harmonic balancer and slide it forward.
Success!
here is a link just for the bitch clip
http://off-camber.net/bitch_clip.php
next is the removal of 1 13mm nut at the rear of the shift carrier.
use a exacto knife or a razor blade to cut the end of.
once you cut the sleeve off you can push the rubber to the other side to remove it.
now your shift carrier should be like this.
Next step is to sand down the edge on the back.
Before
After
You can see the metal file we used in this picture and the Garagistic rear delrin bushing (can be bought here).
Garagistic front carrier bushing
Next step is to burn out the old bushing on the rear carrier bracket.
hammer in the new Delrin bushing with the chamfered end in first.
should look like this when its done.
A bag of screws came in with my order for the uuc products, new screws for my evo 3 shift lever.
next step requires blue loctite
install the uuc erk fitting into the shift carrier
place loctite in the screw holes.
screw them in.
your shift stage prepped and ready to go back on the car.
but the rear of your trans might look like this.
the selector rod seal is clearly leaking.
here is the tool I used to remove the seal.
craftsman flat head part number 41589
the new selector shaft seal fits great on a 15mm socket
next is the yellow pillow
followed by the shift knuckle
push the shift knuckle in and slide pin through the hole.
All clean now.
I installed the front shift carrier with the Garagistic Delrin bushing, I added 2 yellow shifter bushings total.
Maybe in the future a revision can be made to the bushing and make it a little wider.
rear busing installed
New Garagistic DSSR to replace the linkage
Since I removed the harmonic balancer I don’t have to run the bent selector rod, I can use the Garagistic dual shear selector rod.
I was just barely able to squeeze 4 yellow shims on the shift knuckle side of the linkage and 3 shims on the shift lever side of the linkage.
now reinstall the driveshaft, exhaust, X brace and go for a test drive.
here is a quick video of going through the gears after the install.
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