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Lou's Short Stick Installation

 

Notes

First of all, I'd like to give Lou a big thumbs up.  He's a great guy with a great product from order to install (including the instructions).

https://www.angelfire.com/fl/lscamaross/

I have seen some questions regarding the extra cloth that is left around the shifter after shortening the stick. After I got mine apart I decided that I might give something new a try. Here's what I did.

  1. Take the console piece with the shifter boot completely out of the car by unhooking the switches and wires.
  2. Turn it over. There are the 7 tabs that hold a ring in place. This ring has the cloth wrapped around it.
  3. Unhook these tabs and take the assembly out of the console part.
  4. Take the cloth off of the ring. There is a little bit of glue holding it on, but it's not bad.
  5. Turn the cloth inside out.
  6. Take a black marker and make a mark 1 1/8 inch above the 7 slits that are already in the cloth for the tabs. Make sure to keep the same distance between the slits so that the tabs will line up again.
  7. Take a knife and cut new slits on your marks. Start small and only make them bigger if you need to. This will help the fit.
  8. Turn the cloth "outside out".
  9. Begin to stretch the cloth over the ring again using the new slits for the tabs.
  10. As you go around, you may need to make one slit or another a little bit longer.
  11. Once this is complete, check for tabs where the cloth may not fit properly. If so, try to adjust the cloth or possibly cut another hole. Hopefully the new hole will be closer to the shifter opening so you won't see the old slit after the install.  The picture titled Shifter_Side_Slits_1 on the right shows the area where I had to make an extra cut.
  12. Snap the ring and cloth back into the console and make sure the cloth is stretched properly.

There you go - no more giant folds of cloth around your new short stick.

Pictures

NOTE: The names of the pictures describe them.  Click for a full size view.

Shifter_Console_bottom.JPG (111841 bytes)  Shifter_Factury_Hurst_with_Lou.JPG (131624 bytes)
Shifter_Front_slits.JPG (88636 bytes) Shifter_Rear_slits.JPG (92771 bytes)
Shifter_Side_Slits1.JPG (78156 bytes) Shifter_Side_slits2.JPG (86051 bytes)
Shifter_Short_boot_up1.JPG (50845 bytes) Shifter_Short_boot_up2.JPG (48797 bytes)
Shifter_Short_boot_down.JPG (56643 bytes) Shifter_Short_boot_with_Lou_no_knob.JPG (78700 bytes)
Shifter_Short_boot_with_Lou_Hurst_handle1.JPG (69153 bytes) Shifter_Short_boot_with_Lou_Hurst_handle2.JPG (73324 bytes)

 

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Last Updated 06 September 2002 12:53