Dan04COBRA

The Steeda Tri-ax was the sloppiest and longest shifting shifter I've used in a 99+ Mustang. I was not impressed at all.

The MGW shifter is an extremely tight shifter, you'd have to have butter fingers to miss a gear with this shifter. There's no slop, shortest shifts on the market and the 360 degree adjustable handle is excellent. It really helps with the poor placement of the shifter in our cars.

Reaper

i def. know how to drive my car lol.. i just dont know about it thats all.. i just wanted to know what everybody thought and did to theres.

Reaper

hey do you have to drain your tranny fuild when ur change ur shifter??

Miliock

First of all.....you don't have to use the stops...thats why mgw says dont lol. I love how people go against researched suggestions. The internal stops should be more than enough...if you are shifting that hard that you are blowing through the built in stops, then you are going to be damaging the tranny anyway. If you leave the stop in and it isnt set properly it may cause the 3650 to not shift all the way into gear.

The tranny fluid does not need to be changed, but with the shifter out you have an easy fill area exposed, so you might as well take the time and throw some synchromesh in there.

70 MACH I

USE THE STOPS! I've been using stops on my shifter since I installed it, if you fully shove your shifter into 2nd and 3rd gear and adjust the stops .010 away from your handle, you will have NO TROUBLE! It is comforting to have the additional safety of a positive stop when power shifting. ADRENALIN AND SAVAGE SHIFTING ARM = TRANNY BREAKAGE, why take that chance? I've got 7,000 miles on mine with stops on my 3650, no problems, no popouts or other BS.

John

Reaper

hey how do you tighten the stop blots!? evrytime i do they move closer to the center?!?!

SSFenris

OK... the stop blocks ARE the stops! As to 'tightening' the stop set-screws, those screws SET where the blocks sit. I'd set the blocks (as has been mentioned above) at .010" off of the longest throw in the transmission (3rd, as I recall), then use a TINY bit of red loctite to secure the setscrew. This method is only to be used if there isn't a second jackscrew set into the top ring of the shifter (look right above where the setscrew is). Before making the final settings, you need to run through ALL the gears, making sure that it won't hit in any gear (the T3650 has a distinctive 'click' when you're fully engaged). Do this with the car OFF. Then, make any final adjustments, set the jackscrew (or loctite), and DRIVE MAN!

cubsalltheway

If you know how to shift you will never over shift. As mentioned earlier, MGW tells you not to use the stops.