Need help quick for shifter install

jagyro · 03-17-2006, 12:04 PM

delete msg pls shifter installed

NoBMWforME · 03-18-2006, 08:55 PM

If you have a B&M, write back when you need help un-installing it. Write again when you install it again......and again......and again. I've done mine 4 times now, I am an expert.

Starrbuck · 03-19-2006, 11:07 AM

Yea, I've heard bad things about the B&M...

How difficult is a shifter install?

NoBMWforME · 03-19-2006, 11:46 PM

The first time it took me a little over two hours to install. The hardest part was getting your arms around the tranny to undo the bolts that hold the boot down from the bottom. The right tools help too...shorty wrenches and deep sockets for my 1/4 inch set helped a lot too. If you want to do the gasket on the adaptor plate, you need to cut down your allen wrench with a grinder so it will fit between the tranny and the underside of the car from the top. The rest of the tools are pretty plain vanilla. Now I can do it by myself in 45 minutes to an hour. That includes time for cussing and self mutilation (maybe the other way around!) You can do it with jack stands, I think rhino ramps are better. There are lots of good threads on how to do this, I found the threads very helpful.

jagyro · 03-22-2006, 02:30 PM

Well anyways if you didn't know its installed. Im lucky because i have access to a lift so i just jacked my car up. Being a DoD worker rocks some times. Anyways i droped my crossmember and had all the room i needed. the hardest part was.... Actualy i kinda found it ez. Took about 2hrs and that was mostly figureing out how get a pack of smokes without being able to drive the car. But i gotta figure i work on pieces of crap called C-5's and KC-10 aircrafts. So this is ez lol.