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Re: W5X short shifter designs Thu, 17 March 2005 05:14 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Yep, well this is pretty well what I expected...you all want me to take the hardest and most difficult route!

Due to the pins in the existing shifter it will either be a case of making a custom urethane bush that will go over the pins and still fit, or there is the option of brass. If brass was acceptable it would be possible to change the design completely from the toyota design, the design change would make it less complex and would also make the parts count smaller (being both simpler and with less parts it would be cheaper too).

I was thinking about using a full ball design (as opposed to toyota's half ball, spring and upper spring platform) and having it contained by brass (effectively a bush) on the top and seating into a brass bush on the bottom that would sit on top of the existing pins. But if brass isn't popular then it would mean that design would either require two toyota type green bushes or equivalent..that would mean $~40 in toyota green bushes! (plus the other required parts, spring , washer, rubber boot, lower shaft, rubber isolated upper shaft and the spacer block)...

The design that I'm thinking about producing looks nothing like my prototype, my prototype was just to check pretty well that it wouldn't foul if you put the spacer on the top. Sorry I don't have any pictures that show what I'm talking about with my new design either yet.

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Wilbo
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