Disaster narrowly avoided...

[StereoInstaller1]

So last night, just before the euro meet, my shifter starts fucking up.

DAMMIT!

Won't go into reverse, shifts even sloppier than normal, etc. Damn diffucult to drive, even.

Go to the meet, have a great time meeting new people, chatting with buddies, showing off the stereo, whatever.

Come back to the shop, pull the drive shaft and exhaust, pull the shift selector, find the little socket thingiefucker where the shift rod goes into the tranny all wobbly...but that does not seem bad enough to justify the shifter needing to be brualized into submission to hit reverse, so, WTF?


I pull the selector rod out to find it damn near cracked in half!



Like 2mm of metal left holding it together...4 more shifts and I would be calling a tow truck!

Luke

[Miasma]

Damn, That would have been pretty shitty. Cant say I have seen/heard of that one before.

[B2ThaZiZza]

ive done that before and ive also broken a shift lever where it is only just the pivot ball in the cup. dont feel bad.

[AndrewBird]

Ouch.

[Huff]

Yep.. I've seen about 3 of those broken. You can weld them back together and they will hold up. Or just pay the $20 from world pac for a new one.

[Jonathan M3]

I had that happen to me before. I found the problem like you, about 3 shifts before completely breaking in two.

[Lair]

Sucks driving all the way home in third gear.

[E30_fiend]

I've had that happen to a few of my friends before. I know that they are pretty strong but for all the cases of selector rods breaking to be in that exact spot kind of points out a design flaw. As stated above it can be welded and it will hold up but as most of us know, welds makye the metal around it a bit weaker and that's not exactly the greatest place to have a weak spot. Yes you are lucky you caught it but realistically, bothunth too gnarly would happen, you just wouldn't be able to shift out of whatever gear. Nothing a tow couldn't help with. But donheats on catching it in time and saving a tow.



Taylor

[SamE30e]

So last night, just before the euro meet, my shifter starts fucking up.

DAMMIT!

Won't go into reverse, shifts even sloppier than normal, etc. Damn diffucult to drive, even.

Go to the meet, have a great time meeting new people, chatting with buddies, showing off the stereo, whatever.

Come back to the shop, pull the drive shaft and exhaust, pull the shift selector, find the little socket thingiefucker where the shift rod goes into the tranny all wobbly...but that does not seem bad enough to justify the shifter needing to be brualized into submission to hit reverse, so, WTF?


I pull the selector rod out to find it damn near cracked in half!



Like 2mm of metal left holding it together...4 more shifts and I would be calling a tow truck!

Luke

I need to molest my car to get it into reverse. Pelican Parts is taking their sweet time getting me my shift rebuild kit. Imagine driving with no bushings in your shifter. Thats my car..

[Jon325i]

Cant say I have seen/heard of that one before.

Me neither. Glad you made it home then uncovered the problem.

Jon

[Aptyp]

This a fairly common problem with short shifters. Seen quite a few break on tracks. And shifter levers too. Seemed like it was with z3 and such levers that were much longer on the bottom.

On the positive side, until a tow truck would take you home, you'd be blasting that stereo.

[nando]

UUC double sheer selector rod FTW. Now if I only had time to put mine in...

[Van Westervelt]

UUC has the dual rod deal. DSSR or something? Supposed to pretty muc eliminate any chances of thos crap happening.

You had good luck this time Luke! :) Sorta like your guibo last fall. lol

-edit- took too long to post, Nando knows what I am talkin about.

[Jand3rson]

Pelican Parts is taking their sweet time getting me my shift rebuild kit.

That's why you order from BMA.

Nice catch, Luke!

[nando]

UUC has the dual rod deal. DSSR or something? Supposed to pretty muc eliminate any chances of thos crap happening.

You had good luck this time Luke! :) Sorta like your guibo last fall. lol

-edit- took too long to post, Nando knows what I am talkin about.

yeah, do you have one? no way you could ever break it. should make all the bushings last longer too, since it distributes the force more evenly. It's got a good weight to it as well which should make shifting smoother. I had to have mine modified to fit the ix, but I'm looking forward to getting in. hopefully this month. :)