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Offline sharpxmen

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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #15 on: July 22, 2010, 11:49:41 AM »
Quote from: Torch_Ind on July 22, 2010, 10:35:04 AM
the top of it is but it bolts the the trans with 4 bolts thats rectangle so you can bolt it on 180 out and have the shifter bent towards the dash in instead of bent towards the seats


that's what i was referring to in my first post (the plate with 4 bolts). As far as i remember my AX-5 tranny does not have that bend in the lever but the NV3550 that's on the Jeep right now does. If he's got that bend in the lever he should just check to see if the bend is towards the back (that's how it was on the 3550 i put in).

in this image you can see the AX-5 in the foreground (NV3550 in the background with the lever flipped - I had to do it as it was to far back in my case - i had to take the inside collar out to be able to flip the lever, i didn't try the whole plate but that might also work)


this is the way the NV3550 shifter looked like initially


so in my case the AX-5 had a straight lever, is yours bent like the one in the picture?


 
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #16 on: July 22, 2010, 06:12:50 PM »
sorry about the pic being a nv trans I just wanted to show a close up of the 4 bolt piece.  and was the best I could find on google lol
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2010, 01:28:31 AM »
Quote from: Torch_Ind on July 22, 2010, 06:12:50 PM
sorry about the pic being a nv trans I just wanted to show a close up of the 4 bolt piece.  and was the best I could find on google lol

no worries, i just thought there are more than 1 type of AX-5 when you posted that pic - i think it's an AX-15 as that plate looks different than the nv
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #18 on: July 23, 2010, 10:50:50 AM »
The photos really help and I certainly appreciate you guy's taking time to offer these ideas.

Let me repeat that all I ever did was depress the shift lever collar and turn it 1/4 turn anit-clockwise to remove the shift lever. Never did take the top cover off.

The bend in my AX-5 shifter coming out of the tower goes aft first.

Did I understand correctly or incorrectly that the COLLAR might have been clocked 180 out when we re-installed it?

I'm just about ready to bet the farm that we don't have the lever backwards but that's job-one for tomorrow morning.

Thanks again, folks.
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #19 on: July 23, 2010, 10:58:31 AM »
Sharp, the more I think about your comment regarding the collar, the more convinced I'm becoming that we just got the collar clocked incorrectly.

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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #20 on: July 23, 2010, 11:36:57 AM »
Good call, Sharp LOL :dance:
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #21 on: July 23, 2010, 12:59:08 PM »
Quote from: TN00TJ on July 23, 2010, 10:58:31 AM
Sharp, the more I think about your comment regarding the collar, the more convinced I'm becoming that we just got the collar clocked incorrectly.



Actually the collar comment was from Bounty, i suggested the plate or the teflon bushing that goes on the ball at the end of the lever (which goes int he shifting rail under that plate we all talk about). I'd say take it back out the way you did the first time and play around with it :)
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #22 on: July 23, 2010, 03:23:16 PM »
Just razzin ya.  Let us know what you find.  I'm headed to the river :beer:
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #23 on: July 23, 2010, 08:50:31 PM »
Sorry for the faux pas. (Is it Chris?)

Anyway, thanks again for the ideas - will update ya'll tomorrow evening.
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - help !
« Reply #24 on: July 26, 2010, 01:02:11 PM »
Haven't forgotten to update - just too dadgum hot to work this weekend. Temps are supposed to be a little cooler tonight and tomorrow.
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Re: AX-5 shift lever install - Solved !
« Reply #25 on: August 03, 2010, 07:38:19 AM »
DOH...

Should have dawned on me before this but it didn't...

With the motor out of the frame, the nose of the transmission is going to droop BECAUSE the little mount cushion is behind the transmission's center of gravity which, OF COURSE, will throw the shift lever forward in all positions.

Raise the input shaft to the height where it's gonna live with the motor in place, and everything becomes copacetic.

End of problem.

Incidentally, the locking collar can go in either way without affecting the pattern. I tried it yesterday.
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