07mustanggt

Had a dealership install my short throw shifter so that I could keep the warranty. Well turns out they wanted to drop the transmission so that it'd be easier. I told them that they could do it without droppin it so they just loosened some bolts to make it easier to install. Well installation cost $173 and the shifter was only $220! Gah I was ticked, but anyway I love the shifter and love how solid and strong it feels. Well I was drivin on the interstate and noticed that when I accelerate there is like a whining sound coming from under the car that wasn't there before? I feel no vibration in the shifter itself so my thinking is, well it can't be the shifter. Everytime I accelarate it sounds like something just isn't synchronized right for some reason. I thought that it would be all the time, but cruising around when I push my clutch in there is no sound and just at a constant speed or slowing down I don't hear it either??? Think that maybe some of the bolts aren't tightened all the way or what? I have no clue what it is, but anyone else had this issue?

ErcWrestlr

I hear this with mine too. It's a very faint whine though. I think it's normal.

acascianelli

Total bull****, they were just looking for something to run up the bill. If I had a car lift, I bet I could install a Hurst in under 20 minutes. I installed mine with a set of ramps and it took me a little under an hour. It was also my first mod on any car.

marcuskeeler

I had a local dealer install it but only after we'd spoken about the install method first. I don't have a lift of an appropriately high jack so was kinda stuck.
He tried to install it without dropping the driveshaft but in the enddid to make it easier.
Removing the tranny? That's beyond retardation [:@]

blaven

Geez the shifter was one of the easiest things i have done to my car and i do all my work myself. If you were close i would have done it for a case of beer its that easy. No way you have to remove the drive shaft and definitely not the transmission.

Go over this write up, its what i used and make sure they did it right, especially tightning the bolts correctly and making sure the **** pictured in step # 23 is in the right directtion.

Just noticed i forgot to put the link in ha!
http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2...fter/index.php

marcuskeeler

You can do it without removing the driveshaft, no dispute there. It is a lot easier if you remove it though, just saying.

D_Gusler

Pull the cover around the shifter & check to see if they installed the black rubber boot that covers the floorpan from the factroy shifter assembly.