Mrgone and I were installing my STS from James92SE (fast shipment, will buy again A++++++ ) and uhh... well, we (ahem MrGone ahem) busted that rubber chunk that acts as the pivot for the shifter...

but yeah, my car cant move and I need to be at work tomorrow. Shawn's going to Home depot right now to pick up some ghetto rig sheetmetal that'll kinda act as a support until i can either:

a) get a new (used) shift cradle from a gracious .org'er PIF (Pay it Forward)?

or

b) get bent over by the dealer.

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Whoever offers to PIF will get a quart jar (hopefully. if my dad's a ****, a pint will have to do) of Uncle Skeeter's BBQ sauce. Homemade by my mom and a secret recipe to boot! worthy indeed. I wish I had more to give, but it's all i can do
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I'm dead serious about this guys... I need your help. Jeffy: we tried calling, but we figured it was a nogo since you helped out whats-his-face with the 5-sp swap... If anyone local (Western Washington) can do it, even better.

PLEASE!

 

edit: could one superglue it back together...?

 

send me a pic (sola_x@hotmail.com) of it..i should have one lying somewhere in the garage that I can PF

 

How much does the dealership want for one? It doesn't seem like it would be that bad.

If you decide to go the glue route, only JB Weld will do...

 

me no has JB weld.

we went to his house and got some wierd epoxy type stuff called quiksteel.

I made 2 little cross support bars out of aluminum, master fabricator y0!!!111//oneoneone

Now I'm just waiting on him to get the Shifter back together. When I got mine Jeffro already had it all put together so I just had to unbolt mine and put his in. (thanks jeffy ).

it was supposed to be a 45min thing, not a few hour thing

 

all fixed
I think its stronger than before, which brings up a new "mod"

actually i'm kind of surprised nissan designed it the way they did. Instead of putting a metal bar then a rubber bushing and bolt they made a rubber bar and then a metal sleeve and bolt (in our case the bolt rusted to the sleeve and when I was loosening it... kabaam, the 15 year old rubber cracked and broke).

 

quicksteel = offbrand of JB weld. works great for this stuff, but let it cure fully.

 

You two are sooooo newbie-ish! haha

 

jeff always has some thing smart to say .....

 

Smart people usually do

These two dingdongs are local to me so I give them crap.

 

lol. Well it sure didnt take 4 mins to dry, more like a few hours.

It was pretty dang solid though.

 

Sorry, I didn't have any bailing wire. I guess a coat hanger could have worked. Had zip ties, but thats not the same.

 

+1 on the ding dongs. I'm local to these guys too. I was bout ready to drive over there! Glad they figured it out I still think Anton should of stolen the part from Shawn's car! He has 3 other cars to drive! (The Jimmy, the Durango, and the Mustardstain)

S

 

maximase86's '86 is cooler than my 91...:cry:
is that rubber on the bottom of the shifter prone to breaking...or did you guys just **** around?

 

I dont think its prone to breaking, but since the bolt was rusted to teh metal sleeve, and i was unbolting it from the top..... (bottom = nut, but it was dark and i wasnt thinking about it).

either way the rubber was kind of brittle.

 

it's all fxt now.

if you're going to do a shifter... don't pull a Gone.

 

acualy it is prone to breaking because when me and my friend were doing his 5spd swap we had to go to a different junk yard to get that piece because both of the 5spd 3rd gen in the junk yard where we got the tranny had the same part broke. proboly the people thought the tranny went out and junked the car because nether were wrecked and we know the vg didnt die

we went to the dealer and it was about 45$ for a new one

 

mine was $47.33 + $6 next day FedEx.

edit: it smelled soooo good when i pulled it out of the wrapper. new fresh parts jsut fer me!