Anybody that has a Hurst shifter and had to use the optional sound deading stuff that was provided in the shifter kit, did it reduce the vibrating sound? On mine it reduced it by 2/3, but is still there under hard acceleration. The next problem is that with the rubber washers between the arm and the shifter itself, I have alot of play in the shifter arm. Every thing works fine but in gear I can move the arm up and down quite a distance! It does not go out of gear, just to much play. Anybody help? Hurst told me to live with the noise because with internal shifter you are going to have noise. Thanks, Jeff

 

I thought I could live with the noise but the last time I drove it I decided that I'm going to put some rubber gasket material between the upper and lower shifter, where they blot together. I'll let you know if it makes a difference.

As for the movement of the shifter. Did you adjust the stops and tighten the jamb nuts? That would be the first thing I would check.

 

When you put rubber between the upper and lower shift arms, thats where you get the play in the shifter! It moves on the rubber and I tightened the bolts tight enough to distort the rubber enough to squeeze it out of the space it was in. If you leave it alone the upper and lower arms are groved to fit better and thats why the noise is too loud.

 

I was thinking that I would reduce the size of the bolts one size, then use nylon bushings through the bolt holes. Also, the gaket material I am going to use is firm. We use it for flange gaskets at work and it hodls up well.

I'll get some pics when I get to it.

 

would like to know where you got your shifter from? Local or over the net? Hurst may be right about the noise because of the internal shifter. It is the same with Semi Trucks. It acts like a stethoscope.

 

Troyer Performance is where I got mine. I checked localy and it would have cost me about $100 more! Troyer performance is a sponcer of this site.

 

I have 2002 and installed 391-5026 Hurst shifter a couple of weeks ago.

1) The throws are shorter as advertised but the shifts are so sticky that my shifts are about ten times slower then the original equipment.

2) The noise coming from the shifter is outragous. I added the rubber shims to the shifter but the noise is still too much.

What happened to the quality that Hurst used to have?

Are they following the other tails of business where they don't perform appropiate R&D testing and prototyping before selling their product?

If you look at their website www.hurst-shifters.com "Ask Tech", their last entry is 10/1/2004. What been happening for the past 7 months?

What are your experiences with Hurst?

 

Keep shifting and the shifter will gradually loosen up a bit. You have reduced the throw by 30% and along with it the leverage too.

JMC

 

I submitted a Tech support email to Hurst and received the following message from them.

"You have the option of changing the internal springs to a light spring to make it shift easier. The spring kit is part number: 230 5000. Thank you "

 

From the neutral position you have to push to the left to line up first and second gear gates. Granted a strong spring requires that you push harder to the left than with a weaker spring but I don't think that having a weaker spring will make is shift into gear any easier. FWIW the spring on the left side of my shifter is weaker than the one on the right. I seems to have worn out prematurely. They were both the same resistance back in November.

JMC