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Old 07-05-2006, 04:04 PM
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Default Pete Serio - Hurst shifter rebuild

Pete helped me identify my shifter via an email pic as the correct application for my car then rebuilt it (beautifully) and had it back within a week!

It shifts awesome! Great service all-around.

Highly recommended, http://www.precisionpontiac.com/

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Old 07-05-2006, 04:35 PM
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Pete's restoring mine for my Judge.

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Old 07-05-2006, 05:34 PM
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Pete is a great asset to our hobby,a Hall of Famer.

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Old 07-06-2006, 01:22 PM
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Pete did a gauge restore for me. He is a class act, and a credit to this hobby.

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Old 07-07-2006, 06:55 PM
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I've dealt with Pete as well. Great guy to deal with. Knows his stuff and does excellent work.

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Old 07-07-2006, 07:47 PM
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I bought afew things off Pete, He is a class act.He has some cool hurst memorabilia if anyone is interested.

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Old 07-07-2006, 08:20 PM
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I "seventh" the motion. Got mine back last week.Have to learn to shift all over..never knew they worked that well ! Pete is a great guy and a good "listener". The rebuild was excellent and timely. Thanks again.

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Old 07-08-2006, 01:30 AM
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I guess I'm the black sheep in this crowd. I've never used Serio for anything, but he apparently does good work when he's paid. But as I said in my last correspondence with him, he'd better hope he's never in a position to want anything from me, because I wouldn't help him. I was hoping he would share one little piece of information about Hurst shifters with me- the correct positions of the two different thickness separator plates (Mr.Gasket/Hurst won't divulge such info). Instead of taking a half a minute and giving me the answer, he composed a full page dissertation on how good he is, how much time/effort/money he's invested in his trade, blah, blah, blah, and suggested I send him the shifter for rebuilding (which it doesn't need). This was after I explained to him that I'll never be a threat to his business- this is the only Hurst I ever took apart, and probably will be the last, and that I'm retired and not looking for any new livelihood. Thanks Pete.

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Old 08-08-2006, 10:13 PM
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Just picked up my shifter at Norwalk,Pete did a Awesome job.He even saved me shipping by bringing it to Norwalk.Thanks Pete!

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Old 08-23-2006, 05:52 AM
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I'm happy to hear of someonewho will maybe be willing to do some good work for me. Thanks to those who posted this.

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Old 08-25-2006, 09:19 AM
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Default I can use Pete. Contact please?

Hello friends, I believe I could really use ths persons services. If you have an idea of how to contact him please let me know. My email is [email protected]

Thanks everyone and good day.


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Old 08-25-2006, 10:39 AM
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Hello friends, I believe I could really use ths persons services. If you have an idea of how to contact him please let me know. My email is [email protected]

Thanks everyone and good day.


Mike
Pete Serio site is http://www.precisionpontiac.com/

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Old 08-25-2006, 10:54 AM
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If you would like Pete's phone number he can be reached by calling (614) 258-3500. 2719 Columbus Ave. Columbus, Ohio

Excellent quality and worth the price for his services.

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Old 08-25-2006, 05:14 PM
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I guess I'm the black sheep in this crowd. I've never used Serio for anything, but he apparently does good work when he's paid. But as I said in my last correspondence with him, he'd better hope he's never in a position to want anything from me, because I wouldn't help him. I was hoping he would share one little piece of information about Hurst shifters with me- the correct positions of the two different thickness separator plates (Mr.Gasket/Hurst won't divulge such info). Instead of taking a half a minute and giving me the answer, he composed a full page dissertation on how good he is, how much time/effort/money he's invested in his trade, blah, blah, blah, and suggested I send him the shifter for rebuilding (which it doesn't need). This was after I explained to him that I'll never be a threat to his business- this is the only Hurst I ever took apart, and probably will be the last, and that I'm retired and not looking for any new livelihood. Thanks Pete.
Hmmm, you sure it wasn't the e-mail auto-responder he uses. I got the same 1-page description of his services, but I think that's just standard fare.

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Old 08-25-2006, 05:37 PM
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I emailed Pete several pics of the shifter I had rebuilt. We exchanged several emails. He identified the shifter to be the correct one for my application.

After he spent his time looking at my pics and answering my emails (all for free), I could have turned around and sent it to Hurst.

The last two things to mention is the excellent rebuild and SUPER fast service. He got it back to me in a week. Most of the work I have had done on the car/motor/etc. has been very slow.

A+ all-around for Pete's service.

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Old 08-26-2006, 12:26 AM
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I just recieved his book ,VINTAGE HURST SHIFTERS - A COMPLETE GUIDE - VOLUME 1 ,Excellent!

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Old 08-28-2006, 06:22 PM
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I need someone to rebuild my dual gate - any advice? :confused:

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Old 08-30-2006, 01:04 PM
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Default BLHU - Dual Gate rebuild...

Pete posted here in an old thread I started about how I tried to (Somewhat succesfully) to get my Dual Gate tighter. He is very helpful.

I had no issues with the Ratcheting mechanism or anything cosmetic..

He essentially said there are no "wear" parts in a dual gate that can be restored in order to tighten the shifter slop. The only points that wear adn affect the movement of the handle are the Hole in the shifter and the base of the shifter. The hole becomes larger and the base wears in a convex shape.

Both of those issues might be solved by wither welding up and filing down and then replating, or just some replating might thicken things up..

I used goofy things like a sticking DIME under the shifter to take up the clearance (it fit perfectly) and a plastic bushing from the hardware store in the hole..

It works well, but wont last I'm sure..

Now there are parts up top in the ratcheting mechanism that can become broken...But we didnt discuss that.

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Old 08-30-2006, 04:10 PM
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I recently emailed Pete with pics of 3 and 4 speed shifters for FS 65's. By doing that I discovered that there are two different sticks depending if you had buckets or bench seat. I had always been told that FS 65's only used one stick for all cars no matter what configuration. As it turns out, the better of the two sticks (not rusty) was the one I needed for my bench seat setup. Thanks Pete.

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