I've heard of a couple fellows fabricating an adapter to use the whole Tiger
shift lever on the Hurst. Original looks, better feel. I'll bet there's a
drawing floating around somewhere.
Stu
----- Original Message -----
From: <BlueGolfer@aol.com>
To: <joness@wsu.edu>; <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: swapping shift linkage
> In a message dated 8/30/01 3:22:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joness@wsu.edu
> writes:
>
> > it seems that the shift linkage can be removed with the
> > tranny in place (remove mount and side panel and boot), is this true?
> > also can the Hurst linkage be put in without too many gyrations (like
> > dropping the tranny)? finally does the Hurst linakge come with a stick
as
> > short as the stock one? thanks much, sseems easier to get the answer
> > before I spend two hours on my back thinking it'll work when in fact it
may
> > not. thanks,
> I have the Hurst shifter in my Tiger but I installed it with the tranny
out
> of the car. I believe you could replace it with the tranny in, but you'll
> need skinny fingers.
> The shifter is about as short as the regular Tiger shifter. The threads
ontop
> are a different size than the Tiger shifter, so you'll have to use the
ugly
> Hurst white ball, unless you do some modification to the Tiger knob.
>
> The Hurst shifter works pretty good. One of the reasons is it has threaded
> connections for setting up the linkage arms instead of the slots with
cotter
> pin.
>
> Rob K
> Melbourne Fl
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