BUZZ FIXED.

it was because of the hollow titanium knob that didn't sit 100% perfect on the shifter threads. my OEM knob is working perfectly (but i love the look of my titanium one ).

duanet85 recommended that i use silicone inside the Ti knob, and i might try that. i love how the Ti knob was countersunk just the perfect height. not as low as the voodoo, but lower than stock. i'll post the results when i get around to it for anyone interested.


thank you all

 

also, i thought i was supposed to use the urea grease (silvery one) because that's what was on the stock shifter. but my uncle who knows everything about everything about everything and how to fix everything suggested i used white lithium grease.


+1 for me

 

My Axialflow SS vibrated ALL the time when I first installed it with my Sppon Ti shift knob (with or without the plunger fix).

Being the snazzy engineer that I am, I started rigging up a solution:

Magic Fingers: Made my own by cutting up silicone baking pans purchased from Walmart. This helped lessen the vibrations transferred from the engine through the transmission housing, but nothing dramatic.

Sand Down Shifter Bushing: When I first tried installing my SS, I couldn't get it to fit in the ring in the transmission shift linkage. I had to sand it down in order to even install it.

Then I started getting the most annoying rattling and ringing coming from the shifter... but I couldn't get enough of the shifter feel. So I started by looking at where the shifter touches the transmission housing... at the plastic pivot housing, and the kevlar shifter bushing.

I then measured the shifter bushing with a caliper, and compared it to the factory one, and noticed that it was approximately 0.02 mm larger in diameter than the factory one (even after I had sanded it down to install it). I started sanding it down using 400 grit sandpaper, making sure to sand it evenly to keep it's overall shape. I finished by using a Dremel to buff out the sanding marks and reinstalled. This significantly reduced the noise coming from the shifter more than anything.

Modified Plunger: I also cut off the top portion of the plunger packaged with the shifter (firstly, because I couldn't get it to install correctly without popping off and secondly, because it was annoying the hell out of me while shifting), and installed the top portion of that on the shifter shaft and reinstalled the factory rubber boot overtop the shifter housing to keep dust/dirt out and further reduced vibrations.

3/8" Rubber Hose: This was probably useless, but I was tired of messing with it, so it's still on there. I cut off a bit of rubber hose (for use with a PCV line for example), and slipped it down on the smaller diameter portion of the shaft of the shifter so that the shift knob would press down against it and sandwich the cosmetic shift boot between them. I figured this would help reduce the noise transmitted through the shifter like sound dampening (I noticed that the noise would be reduced if I had placed anything on the shifter that could absorb some of the vibrations).

I can drive with the radio off and still hear it (a whirring of gears), but it's not annoying, it's just a new bit of character . One of the downsides of eliminating the rubber bushing in the stock shifter is transmission noise will become more apparent.

Of course it was all lubed up with the Honda High-Temp Urea Grease. If you end up trying this, please post up results because I'm sure RP/Rick's would sell more of these if this problem was fixed.

 

yeah screw the damn plunger. it BARELY reduced the vibration but it made shifting 10x harder than it needed to be, and provided so much resistance at some points that the shifter would pop out of gear..

and yes, i tried using it at like 4 different points and still the same result..

 

Stratocaster is right you should not use white lithium grease. You need a heavier high heat grease. It probably won't get rid of the buzz, but it will help it operate much better over time.

IMHO the feel of the Axial shifter far out weighs the buzz I get from it. I don't know about yours, but mine does not buzz all the time. I have learned to just ignore it.

What ever your choice good luck.

 

it will probably feel better with the urea high temp. i was swiveling around the bushing on the stock shifter and i said wow this is 10x smoother than the one on the new shifter..

 

Make sure to get as much of the lithium grease out as you can, and good amount of urea grease in and around that shift bushing.