No... THIS is deep...

 

I had a Hurst shifter on my 06 Cobalt SS... it improved shifting a lot (no more missing that critical 2-3 shift) and had a really nice firm feel. Installing wasn't really all that complicated, but you do have to take care with the cables or they will break.

 

Saw that happen a lot here recently. After seeing all the aftermath of the recently flooding here, it's no laughing matter to a lot of folks in this area. Sad part is, it raining hard here to today again, and they are predicting hard rains on average every 2-3 days. People are starting to just abandon their homes and just let forclosure take it, keeps flooding and they can't rebuild.

 

I've sketched out a piece that would go from the lower shifter arm ball to the threaded cable. I'm generally overloaded on projects, so I'm not sure how fast I can do something with this, but I'll keep you posted. This would be a 3-piece aluminum part that would come together as a single working piece as it captures the pivot ball and captures the threads. It would at least move the weak link to the plastic threads and the cable itself... which can be addressed as a "next stage" item.

For anyone with easy access to the plastic threaded part at the end of the cable, a couple of questions...

Are these actual threads (as in a single cut that spirals end to end) or are they parallel rings (as in each groove is separate from the next)? If the former, can someone get me some thread values? ie, metric or SAE, size and pitch?