Disaster narrowly avoided...

[ditchdigger]

but my hands are huge, so I am not even gonna waste time trying.

Quit bragging ;)

[StereoInstaller1]

Do you really have to drop your drive shaft to do the shifter?

No, but the stuff I pulled was way more than just the shifter. I suppose it could have been done otherwise, but my hands are huge, so I am not even gonna waste time trying.

[ROOR]

I am also having this problem with reverse, can someone post a link to BMA for shifter rebuild kit? I can't seem to find it.

[SamE30e]

Do you really have to drop your drive shaft to do the shifter?

[E30Idea]

Yikes

[diegom6]

Same happend to me once, replaced it with a short shifter made for E30 M3 (had to mod it) wich is solid and feels way better the hsifting of corse.

[Hartge_H27]

well damn. glad u caught that before u got stranded.

[ejnight]

If you kill the the car as you pull out of the picnic, this will put a lot of stress on this part. LOL Luke knows.

[nando]

Yeah, so that UUC shifter is like, what, $37,00o or some shit?

I grabbed some decent used parts off of a car I parted.

Feels so nice! That front bushing has to have been sloppy for a few years now.

Any of you guys have a suggestion for a better bushing at the rear of the carrier?

$200 for the dssr or so.. but yeah, the whole package is pretty spendy. it uses bearings rather than hard plastic bushings though.

[mattdk318i]

ive personally seen 2 broken. I even bought one with a "bad clutch" with this same prob

[StereoInstaller1]

Yeah, so that UUC shifter is like, what, $37,00o or some shit?

I grabbed some decent used parts off of a car I parted.

Feels so nice! That front bushing has to have been sloppy for a few years now.

Any of you guys have a suggestion for a better bushing at the rear of the carrier?

[SamE30e]

That's why you order from BMA.

Nice catch, Luke!

But they had everything all compiled to make it, and I didn't have to search! lol

[CleanAzzE30z]

I had it break on me whilst I was getting on the freeway back in '99 or so. Fun stuff!!


Mariano

[RabidChimp]

Damn Luke, it is good that it didnt break. Lucky you noticed the change in shifting. I had a mini disaster as well, stopped on the way back from the meet at Carls Jr, got a large soda and burger, down shifted and hit the gas, sure enough cup of Sprite into my rear seats. A slew of profanity spewed from my mouth the likes that would terrify a pirate.

[brandondan1]

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. :)

The DSSR reduced the side-to-side slop in neutral and while in gear a bit as well. I don't recall it making it smoother, but perhaps it did. A weighted shift knob will make a big difference, though. I'm never getting rid of my RK6-L.