Now it's going off topic. No one said you "couldn't make it". i gave you my response to your initial question and offered you an alternative so you didn't have to make anything nor do any more research, I didn't offer you the APE bushings.

WTF is with all of the goddamned whiners these days?

how bout this? Shut your pie hole, and go on with your thread.

 

well not that i don't support those who support us but i just don't always have the money to spend and at other times, i'd rather just make the part myself-...

with that being said, i read somewhere on here (a while ago) that skate and or skateboard bearing fit in our shifter linkage-... w/ a bit of dremeling/grinding of the outer cage it really is a rather snug fit-... then a couple of washers and the inner rubber ring from a garden hose keeps it centered on the dowl.

cost-... free being as how it was all junk i had laying about in my garage.

fit- it is what you make of it. i used the rubber garden hose seal because it did have a little "give" in it to allow the cotter pin to be snug against the outer washer

install time- if i remember it was maybe about an hour or2 of finding/noodeling w/ different combos and the grinding of outer cage

driveability- i have a custom short throw (similar to ark), removed shifter weight, and slave cylinder mod along w/ the skate bearing mod, the shifting is no harder than stock but much more direct!

reliability- not an issue

i highly recomend this setup mainly for the price (if you have the pieces laying aroud), and with the directness of each shift it's not a useless mod either.

if i had to purchase a kit for this i honestly wouldn't spend any more than $10 for it.

i hope this helps!

 

i had mine machined out of delrin.. after 6 months of use before i sold my car, they were still in perfect shape.. very simple to make, you just need the plastic in right diameter and one drill bit. but i had mine machined on a lathe.

if you have access to a lathe you could make about 40 of these in an hour or so very easily..

 

^^^ thank you socks for the very useful information. I believe that this is the course I personally will take. I will likely be purchasing a rod segment and turning it to shape on my lathe, if anyone else is interested I can produce a set for you at cost.

 

a) Delrin
b) 8 months?
c) None whatsoever! I've loved these.

I got mine from KJB for $25 http://www.kjbmotorsports.com/trans-...b-bushing.html
Get these!

 

I dunno, at 25 ducks it starts being worth saving my paper route money. I might have to do that, thanks!

 

i got the same KJB shifter linkage bushings and love them, i had mine for over a year now...

i also got the KJB shifter base bushings as well...best 50 bucks i paid