5 hours of fiddling last night with the Hurst shifter.. UGG..
So i have a 69 Hurst Shifter, I am told form a Camaro, are they not the same? I have and older M21 4 speed manual (1963 or 1964 Corvette i think) and the 67-68 mounting kit for the shifter. Ugg.. crap goes together but the shifter and hole don't line up. Macgyver to the rescue. I re-engineered the POS mounting plate.
I rotated the shifter on the large bolt as a pivot so the shifter was square with the hole, I drilled a hole on the mounting plate to relocate the smaller bolt. It all lines up now.
On to problem #2, my shifter linkages no longer line up. So I extended the threads down the shafts and two out of the three now line up fine. However the reverse linkage will not extend long enough, i've run into the bend. So I'm going to have the shaft shortened an inch and things should line up then. Onto the reverse wiring as there is none in my car, and then back to assembling the interior now that i know where the hole for the carpet will be. I am still in need of an original shifter handle. Anyone got a used one kicking around or know of someone, if so hit me back..
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