[urq] Short shift kit.

[Donald Stellmaker]

That's a thought I had when I stripped it down but thought the designer
might have taken the fact that he was mating new parts to 20+ year old
parts. Guess not. Since this is turning from a DIY day job into a sublet
machining job I've decided to just go ahead and also replace the linkage up
the tunnel as well, anyone know a good source for these parts?

Thanks everyone!

Donnie.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Renneisen" <racingiron at comcast.net>
To: "'donald stellmaker'" <dstellmaker at hotmail.com>; <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:51 AM
Subject: Re: [urq] Short shift kit.


> Donnie wrote:
> > When I assembled the pieces the stainless body of
> > the kit fit pretty tightly to the stock shift rod,
> > is this correct or should it freely slidealong the
> > shaft?
>
> It needs to be able to slide.  When you press down for reverse, the
> shaft slides down inside the ss body.  When I put mine together, the ss
> body would only slide about halfway down the shaft before becoming
> jammed.  I discussed the problem with Richard, and he suspected that the
> shaft was slightly bent.  I confirmed this by rolling it on plate glass.
> I tried to tweak it back to straight, but it really has to be perfect.
> I picked up a shaft from a 4KQ, but it had the same problem.  It was
> close enough that I was able to make it work by sanding and filing some
> material off the shaft.  Another option is to have the ss body machined
> to make the hole just slightly bigger.  He really should increase the
> tolerance a bit when he makes that piece.
>
> Eric R.
> '86 urq
> '93 S4
>
>
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