I think the good doctor is talking about something like this:






Or



The second option would work best.

 

I've got the first option covered, but not the second. I'm trying to avoid disabling my car while trying to improve it. I'm pretty resourceful, but am experienced enough to try to learn from other's experience.

 

The ratchet head and socket might not fit into the available space. Hardware store should have a set of the swivel head gear wrenches

 

Yes: see pic #2. Wife gave me a set of swivel head GearWrenches for Christmas. That articulating ratchet +socket would never fit.

 

doing my conversion now as I read this post. Checked in to look at unhingd's pics. A geared box end works fine. Flex head not need. Unless you remove exhaust and drive shaft forget the ratchet. Bolt on my car was loose which was a surprise.


So far far hardest part for me was finding bolt as I was looking too far forward. Use exhaust junction as a reference point to find bolt
There she is at top right of image

 

Todd, great pics. May we use them for the installation instructions?

 

Of course. I also texted you a couple more solutions to make some frustrating time wasters easy.

 

I don't know what I'm doing wrong.... I tried for 20 minutes to get this damn thing off and it wouldn't move! AT ALL!!!! I yanked on it like I was 13 again, and it just wouldn't move! Anyone else have this problem?

 

Dear sir. Please feel free to share said solutions!

 

Try applying some gentle heat to that weight with a hair dryer. The metal should expand more quickly than the plastic shaft that it's sitting on. Then twist while you try to pull up on it. Also, it might be easier to get your fingers under it if you remove the sound cozy. The top hole should expand sufficiently to pull it over the weight.

 

If not comfortable with heat, I let applied some WD-40 on the shaft. Grabbed with some channel locks and got the weight to turn. Then, I was able to rotate the weight and pull working it loose. I did reinstall after cleaning(removing surface rust//corrosion and lubed it lightly. The next time I removed it, no issues. The part gets some moisture and lightly rusts which makes it tight.

 

Thanks for the tip, I'm going to take the car to my friends shop this weekend, Ill try out what you guys suggested!

 

is there one left for me?

 

also, anyone know the thread size of the shift knob?

 

The shift know has no threads. That would be too easy. It sits over 4 splines and uses a compression sleeve internal to the shift boot that slides in place to lock down the knob. Posting pics here of inverted shift knob and inverted shift boot with locking ring. Mine is a bit damaged from aggressive removal.
Knob bottom up showing split design

Inverted shift boot exposing collar that locks knob on shift extension

 

A deflating realization tonight. I spent a few hours hours over the past weekend installing my Unhingd short shifter. Really feeling full of myself getting it done in the garage with no lift and came up with a couple of helpful hints for others. But......the shifter was sloppy side to side. I took the interior lever out a few times to review my steps but still quite sloppy.

I decided to look at my old lever and found my foible. As thorough as I felt I had been in studying the instructions, I missed a critical element. In the sleeve of the linkage connection on the old shifter, there are two little teflon bushings that must be removed and installed in the new shifter. Well, on my car, "they ain't!" That means that dumb a@#$ has to do it all over again. Get the car up. remove the heat shields and reopen all the cuts on my fingers that have been healing. So, read this forum before the install. Throw out the 4H instructions. They make a great product but the instructions, as do most from other countries, are not written in "dumb southern hick language"? which apparently is all I can comprehend. In this post , pic of old lever and bushings that MUST be moved from the old shifter to the new one! Learn from dummy!

bag 'o parts

easily slips out of old shifter and into new one if you are smart enough to do it the first time!

old bushing slips out easily

There are two!!!!!

Bushing easily slips out of old shifter and into new shifter if you are bright enough to follow directions!

 

4H is in the process of updating the instructions with my most recent pics. I will tell them to put the bushing instructions in bold and ask them to include the other hints you came up with.


818,
Just one set left. Send me your name, mailing address, phone number and email via pm and I'll send you a PayPal invoice.


I won't be ordering the next batch until I get another 3 or 4 folks lined up.

 

Not to be a bum, but I would love to hand my mechanic instructions vs having him hunt and peck in here.... but I will try to whip them up. If 4H or anyone has updated ones, would love to pass them along. Thanks!

 

They promised to get out new instructions with my pics (and from others as well). Once they do that, I was also going to modify the instructions to include everything we've learned so far in the way of trick. All of you with the shifter have my phone number. Don't hesitate to call if you get stumped on something.


Just checked: 4H has not updated their instructions yet.


Unc, do you have the first set of instructions: see the pdf below

 

Finally had Unhingd special short shifter installed on my F-Type Coupe.

28% reduction in shift stroke makes a huge difference and it enables quick gear change tremendously enhancing joy of manual shifting. If you have a manual F-Type, you have to have this short shifter.

Thank you, Unhingd, for your time and effort on this project. Now we get to enjoy this!!!