zorrt
28-08-2006, 07:05 PM
Long story short....I installed a short shift into my car a while back ago and today while I was driving the nut which locks the bolt which ties the gear stick and shift linkage together fell off.
Its a skunk2 short shifter and the nut which came with it had that plastic thing inside which locks the nut in place. Although Ive never reused that nut before, when I installed the short shift I overtightened the nut so had to back it off a bit so it may have been the main reason why the nut fell off. Regardless, I don't think its a very secure way of locking the bolt in place since you can't tighten it too much otherwise you can't change gears (reason why I had to back it off a bit in the first place).
Question is, what is the best way to get the nut on and staying there. Theres not much threaded area to place around with, pretty much just fits 1 of the nut which comes with the skunk2 kit so I cant get 2 nuts into there. What I was thinking, was using 2 skinnier nuts to replace that 1 nut. Can anyone see any short fall on doing so? So each nut would have like a height of about 5 mm.
The only other way I can think of is to try searching for another nut which has the plastic bit inside it and use locktight on it also but scared it will still fall off overtime.
Its a skunk2 short shifter and the nut which came with it had that plastic thing inside which locks the nut in place. Although Ive never reused that nut before, when I installed the short shift I overtightened the nut so had to back it off a bit so it may have been the main reason why the nut fell off. Regardless, I don't think its a very secure way of locking the bolt in place since you can't tighten it too much otherwise you can't change gears (reason why I had to back it off a bit in the first place).
Question is, what is the best way to get the nut on and staying there. Theres not much threaded area to place around with, pretty much just fits 1 of the nut which comes with the skunk2 kit so I cant get 2 nuts into there. What I was thinking, was using 2 skinnier nuts to replace that 1 nut. Can anyone see any short fall on doing so? So each nut would have like a height of about 5 mm.
The only other way I can think of is to try searching for another nut which has the plastic bit inside it and use locktight on it also but scared it will still fall off overtime.