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A major issue for this Shifter is that the services of a machine shop are required and shops that will tolerate these small one-off jobs are very hard to find. I was lucky to find a 3-man shop about 10 miles from my house that has been happy to help me with the Shifter and several of my other Kits that need machine shop work. It also helps a great deal if you are conversant in "machine shop talk", and not many of us are. Of course, you need to have appropriate measurement tools like micrometer, vernier calipers etc as well as being able to prepare shop drawings in a manner that the machinist will understand.
I've rebuilt more than a dozen of these Shifters and have found that the factory changed design several times through their limited production. As for ordering parts from Delta or Robey, several parts are NLA: Trunion #97337, Spigot #97344, Linkage and Gearshift #97340. Others have configurations that may not match your assembly as told in the examples below.
The rubber bushings (not shown on any of my parts Manual drawings) at the transmission mounts are available but most of the factory Support, Shaft Pivot parts are not configured to accept it. Seems that they changed that design very late and all but GT and late '75 JH Support, Shaft Pivot must be opened up to accept the Bushing. Really hard opening a large diameter hole with your cordless drill.....so you need to take it to the machinist.
There are three versions of the 6mm Peg, Linkage Retaining: soft SST, mild steel and hardened steel. If you need to modify your Trunion by re-locating your holes, just hope that is not one of the hardened types. You can use it but the Trunion must be annealed prior to drilling – perhaps your (now, new BFF) machinist can help.
There are similar stories for almost every part in this assembly and that does not include correcting the misguided efforts of prior owners - have you ever tried to remove a hard steel roll-pin from a blind hole in aluminum?????? Another job for your new BFF.
By now your new BFF is getting tired of you knocking on his door every 2-3 days……………
I really feel bad for drivers that have Shifters in need of rebuild. It is no fun driving a car where changing gears requires a prayer each time you shift………
I’ve said it before, if we can get enough people together, this will probably be the last batch of Shifters that I’ll rebuild – then a year later, I get one or two people that have a real problem with their Shifter. Who know what the future holds………………
The base cost of the Kit is $385 + shipping but I’ve been able to give a $20-30 discount in the past which is proportional to the number of Kits in the batch over quantity three. This is because a large part of the machine shop cost is in the set-up time.
If interested, contact me at peteb01@comcast.net
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