vixr

Wow! very cool...what coin is that?

tbear853

2-3 pounds just sitting there with Mother Earth below pulling on it straight down ..... it would not have hurt the transmission at all. The stick is vertical and rest in a big ball socket and between there and the shift forks there's a network of shift rods and detents .... and internal shifter stops.

What's gonna hurt is when you forget to cover it one summer day and leave the car parked in the sun and then get in it and grab that sucker.
Bare metal (like brass, steel, aluminum, stainless all) will just soak in the heat.

Lay a wrench out in the sun for 20 minutes and pick it up.

vixr

word...

moosestang

I've been looking for a heavy shift **** like this that is threaded for the stock shifter 12 x 1.25. TWM makes one called the desert eagle, but it still uses a cheap aluminum insert to thread to the stick. They have the nerve to charge $140+ for it! You'd swear these aluminum inserts they use are plastic, that's how cheap they feel. If I were to shift hard, I think I could break that aluminum.

The MGW shifter doen't feel right with a light weight plastic ****, imo!

obokky

I went with a Flossy heavyweight with a low seating. Not sure the weight (check website, if they are still in business), but it took a lot of the notchiness out of the MT-82. Plus the low position is nice - I can keep my forearm flat on the console. I had a custom design etched and the textured coating helps insulate it against the summer/winter extreme temps. The bad: dealing with Flossy and then the borderline quality of the etching ... traced it in with some Testor's.

obokky

crappy inverted photo?

tbear853

Well, it sure caught attention ....