OK first and for most i owe this thread 100% to Justin (toreador4x4). basically i was *****ing about my shifter sloop. when it is in gear you can shake it side to side about 1-2". Justin said well your shifter ball nylon bushings are probably blown out..

well being i have never replaced this. I got the repair kit they have for the R1. went over to his house today and popped the cover off the shifter arm and what do we find NOTHING haha.. the nylon bushing were GONE... well in under 30 min start to finish the trans shifts like new again, no sloop at all! best $30 i ever spent..

here is the kit for references

so the moral of the story is if the shifter is moving more then like 1/4" side to side.. dude get the kit....

 

hmmm, damn I always thought that it just was suppose to have that much slop in it. I'm going to end up doing that. OR put it off until it gets rather bad and get a hurst. We'll see.

 

won't work for me...as i went to the H-equipped side. HURST.


Nice post though Stone.

 

haha i could have told you that was the problem.

how much did the kit run you?
my brother needs one for his 92.

 

Kit ran him $30

 

lol.....i wish you would have called me.......i got a shifter assembly out of an '07 you could have had (minus the Level II arm/ball)

nice fix!

 

get it from the GEAR BOX in westland do a google search, its off merriman{sp?} road down like residential street on the left the left side has businesses and the right has houses, its in the back of a building..

 

^^^Good to know.... (mine is fine btw at 86k)

 

When I first bought my truck the shop put in a new clutch and the tranny guy said he replaced those for me, definately noticed a BIG difference!

 

ya its alot better

 

kit for $30? where was that? can you send me one, i cant find it that cheap

 

lol you beat me to that shifter I saw that guy post on an classified for a hurst on rps and pmed him to see if he wanted to sell his level 2 shifter and he said it was sold already. lol you beat me to it.

 

thats right i was the one who also talked him into the Hurst shifter....he wasn't going to get it because of the price, but with me paying 1/2 for the Hurst, he got the Hurst real quick.......so if you know what a Hurst cost you know what i paid for the Level II shifter

 

around a 100 or so?

 

yup....

 

Zach and I will be doing a "How to" on this shortly, so stay tuned!

 

Will it be similar to this?

http://www.therangerstation.com/Maga...erbushings.htm

 

i'll need to look into this i suppose

 

my 97 is still fine at almost 150k.

 

surprising have you pulled it? my top gasket was toast.. then no bushings.. and i only had 108000...

 

it still feels fine, i didn't notice anything wrong with it when i had my trans out to replace the clutch.
i think it has more to do with time.

 

mine and zachs how to will be like the one posted but it will emphasize on the placement of the spring washers, i out my dads in wrong and when the shifter was in neutral it didnt spring back to center..i fixed it and that will be included

 

i had to replace that in my 92 but so far the 02 still shifts fine

 

where is the slave clutch pump located on a 2001 ranger

 

here's how i fixed my shifter forever,