![]() ![]() It worked!!! It moves a lot easier now! I sprayed copious amounts of PB Blaster down that channel and let sit overnight. Hey, I did this but instead of brake cleaner, I used PB Blaster. Chase it with compressed air or let it dry, then shoot white lithium grease down the channel for lube. Spray down that channel with Brake Cleaner really well. You can take off the shifter knob by unscrewing it and you should see the wire bent through a tiny whole in the top of the shifter, and then it runs through a channel. wrote: If you're spring looks okay but you can't lift the trigger at all (it's too tight), you probably just need to clean and lube that wire. If you lube the ring on the hurst with dish soap, the new boot will stretch over the ring and you dont have to take the shifter apart to reboot. Thanks for all the help! You guys are great.You really know your stuff!! Just sand it using finer and finer sandpaper, then polish it with polishing compound. since today is the day i work for a living i am looking for putzy stuff. if you want you can send to me and i'll rebuild it. the heat cable from a beetle, for instance 1961, is exact same size as original hurst. If you'rs are broken or too worn PM me and we can talk. I have created some machined aluminum shifter base plates to replace the plastic ones in those shifters and they are 'in testing' now. I like them better than the Gene Berg ones, personally. Good luck, those Hurst shifters are the best and they are getting harder to find, so it's worth puttin in some effot to getting them right. Other springs can be found at the local hardware store. Music wire can also be used to re-create te funky little W shaped spring in the shifter cage if that's missing. I've done it though, so it's quite possible. The wire length and bends have to be 'just right' for it all to work. You have to take apart the shifter and it's a biotch to do. This is a tempered wire, you can buy 'music wire' from a RC hobby shop to replace it. If you are pulling the trigger but nothing is happening, then that wire that runs the length of the shifter shaft is probably broken. If you're spring looks okay but you can't lift the trigger at all (it's too tight), you probably just need to clean and lube that wire. The reverse-lockout is actuated by lifting the trigger which pulls up on a wire that runs through the whole length of the shifter shaft. :)Įxcellent! I happen to have some in the garage I was using on the chrome. So yeah.that would be the type shift knob I'm trying to pretty up. :DīTW, I think I need to replace the spring in there to allow you to shift into doesn't really move freely. Yeah, that's an example of my shifter in excellent condition. Trying to think how to describe it.it's closer to some sort of polycarbonate, but the finish is pretty rough. I hit it with 400 then 800 then 1500 and finished it with mothers and it looks good as new. I have an old t handle that was oxidised really bad. Is it a metal finish or wood or what? If its metal you can wet sand it with 1500 grit then polish it out with mothers, with wood you can sand it with 220 and then re stain it. What would you kind folks recommend to polish it up a bit? I think it's the correct knob.on the bottom, it says DAKA-WARE CHICAGO MADE IN U S A View original topic: Cleaning up old Hurst shift knob.Īny ideas? I searched but didn't see anything about this. Forumsįorum Index -> Beetle - 1958-1967 -> Cleaning up old Hurst shift knob. :: View topic - Cleaning up old Hurst shift knob.
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