Shifter Knob went limp this morning...
#22
Interesting and thanks for the video. So it's in fact not broken, just somehow popped off.
If it doesn't feel to loose I would just pop that back on again, and try not to pull to hard on your lever in the future
If it doesn't feel to loose I would just pop that back on again, and try not to pull to hard on your lever in the future
#23
Thread Starter
Next week I will check it on the pivot ball again, but my theory is that the metal on metal contact inside the cap has caused enough wear to not make this a tight fit anymore. I won't be using it again and risking it popping off again. This is a product failure.
It popped off backing out of a parking spot at 2 MPH.
#24
While its true some others have occasionally had stock plastic pivot caps break trying to install them. But usually its because they were old and brittle, or cold and brittle. I don't recall anyone else having so much trouble breaking stock ones even with heating them first.
So I'm wondering if maybe there is some weird problem with your shift lever. Like somehow the pivot ball isn't truly round, etc.
So I'm wondering if maybe there is some weird problem with your shift lever. Like somehow the pivot ball isn't truly round, etc.
#25
I didn't have any problems with mine, I blasted my shifter with propellant from a compressed air can to freeze it. And my plastics in hot water, inside of a plastic bag lubed with UREA. When I was ready, I pulled the plastics, blasted the shifter, and slid them on with no effort.
#26
My shifter knob went limp this morning, I understand this is a problem as we get up there in the years...
However, just last year I replaced it with the Molydenum one from Car Garage Amis:
https://www.nengun.com/car-garage-am...0-shift-collar
Is there anything else besides the Pivot Cap that could make the shifter get so loose and limp as demonstrated in the video below? In any gear, on or off I can rotate a couple inches easy...
VIdeo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGLog1sAC0
However, just last year I replaced it with the Molydenum one from Car Garage Amis:
https://www.nengun.com/car-garage-am...0-shift-collar
Is there anything else besides the Pivot Cap that could make the shifter get so loose and limp as demonstrated in the video below? In any gear, on or off I can rotate a couple inches easy...
VIdeo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFGLog1sAC0
I replaced with the genuine Honda plastic collar and no issues since.
#27
I didn't have any problems with mine, I blasted my shifter with propellant from a compressed air can to freeze it. And my plastics in hot water, inside of a plastic bag lubed with UREA. When I was ready, I pulled the plastics, blasted the shifter, and slid them on with no effort.
#28
Heat makes materials expand and plastics also gets softer and more pliable.
When things go colder it also makes it smaller.
I'm sure there are some exotic materials that is an exceptions to this general rule though.
When things go colder it also makes it smaller.
I'm sure there are some exotic materials that is an exceptions to this general rule though.
#30
@Chris_Lum I'd like to know how all of those you know about failed...not sure it's possible that it 'cracks' or falls apart.