Short Shift Gear Lever

[AshWebb]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400403778770?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2648

anyone had any experience with these? look quite well made

also wondering whether lift up reverse will still work the same on a 182 trophy as i have read somewhere that it uses a cable and cant see anywhere on here that a cable would attach?

help would be appreciated!

cheers
ash

 

[Ryanph1rs]

I've got this one... I opened the box went cool looked for a fitment guide and it looked hell having to remove the exhaust and all it's now sat in its box for a nice dry day the kits not actually too bad quality speech for 50notes u won't be disappointed for the money
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[AshWebb]

any idea how the lift up reverse will work on cars fitted with a cable lift up system though? worried the reverse isnt going to work properly!

also how stiff is it to move the stick around within the bearing?

 

[Big Bob]

I've never used this type however I had a b@m and when it got hot it seized up, so got rid now I have an mb engineering one and that's fine, never heard that about the trophy as far as I'm aware there all the same but I don't have a trophy mat be worth removing the gear gator and having a look.

£50 a bargain !!!

neither of my old ones were that good a price

 

[AshWebb]

well i read that ph1 doesnt have a cable but ph2 does but im not certain.
i think the one i linked is the same design as the mb engineering one, where did you get that from?

 

[Big Bob]

well i read that ph1 doesnt have a cable but ph2 does but im not certain.
i think the one i linked is the same design as the mb engineering one, where did you get that from?

Im on a phase 2 and there is no cable
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it appears that the mb car performance has gone

 

[MG cup]

There is a cable inside the standard gearstick iirc or it might be a spring. Your reverse will always work okay its wether it can be selected when you don't want. There will be a spring inside this linked lever that keeps the reverse sleeve on the lever down untill you lift it to select reverse.

 

[AshWebb]

Ah I see. It looks like the metal collar on that new one is longer than it is on a normal gear stick so maybe it locks reverse out by the metal collar hitting plastic inside the gear housing?

just wondered because I don't really want to go to all the effort of fitting it if its not going to work properly!

also noticed the b&m one doesn't have fitment for a cable either so wondered if it worked in the same way as that and anyone could advise me.

​Thanks

 

[Cup_Phil]

The cable has nothing to do with reverse - it just pulls the lever back down so it's sprung when you lift it up

The bit that stops you going into reverse is the big chunk of plastic on the gearstick housing - when you pull the nob up it clears that and allows you to go further left
All the after-market quick shifts use an internal spring instead of that little cable you can see

 

[AshWebb]

Ah I see! So you think this one should work just fine?

 

[Cup_Phil]

Yep will work fine

 

[AshWebb]

Ok thanks a lot. Ordered one so will see how I get on!

 

[bozothenutter]

Yanoo.....