Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Transmission / Shifter question

[Hans E. Hansen (FList]

To paraphrase Dan Akroyd on SNL from MANY years ago.....

Clyde, Clyde, you ignorant slut.

We are *not* talking about any sort of 'up-down' pressure
on the shift lever.

Rather it is a fore-aft movement that is damaging.

This possibility is somewhat car specific.  If you put your
hand on the shift lever and then relax your arm, you will have
a tendancy to pull the shift lever back toward you.  In many
cars.  Not all.  But certainly in my Shitbox (tm F.W.).  And I
can't even imagine what the owners of Cobra repli-cars may
experience if they drive them for any real length of time if they
hold the shift lever.

I had friends way back in the previous muscle car ice age
that had some Mopar products.  Some of these cars had LONG
shift levers coming out of the floor to which they attached some
seriously heavy pistol grip shift "knobs".  The permanent weight
of this arrangement WORE OUT SHIFT FORKS!!!!!

Oh, well.

Hans.

On 2/24/08, clyde romero <clyderomero [at] worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> Listen if you look at the Ferrari transaxle from the front of the car all
> you will see is the torque tube coming out of it which is then connected to
> the shift lever we all move. How a downward force pure vertical I might add
> will exhort any pressure on a shift fork is beyond me. Having worked on
> several of these trans axles it is in my opinion that putting any pressure
> on the gated shift lever will NOT cause any damage to the transaxle a quick
> look at the parts manual with its exploded view will explain this even to
> the most technically challenge.
> Thanks for listening.
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> Clyde
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