Shifting issues and upgrades, Shifting and Transmission Options

[gator914]

Thought I'd share some recent upgrades and fixes for the shifting issues that plagued my 914.

Symptoms included:

-Grinding when going into reverse or first gear, whether I was stopped or coasting to a stop for first gear.
-So much shifter slop, the sloppiest, loosest, bucket of gravel shifting you can imagine. Was tough to find a gear at all sometimes.
-Shifting performance declined to the point that I was no longer able to find first, or fourth/fifth.
-Clutch pedal was very loose and outside of the bounds of normal.

So what did I do about it?

I decided to take some time to inspect bushings throughout the entire shifter linkage system and no surprise, they were trashed. The firewall bushing was half missing, gear shift bushing was "wallard out", and rear console didn't look so hot either.

So I got some new bushings and decided to go with the Tangerine Racing side shift linkage upgrade kit and firewall bushing kit.

Here is a link to the install video for anyone that is interested in doing this upgrade: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQx6ISSkcmw/...zRlODBiNWFlZA==

[gator914]

One step forward, 2 steps back.

After driving the car a few more times after adjusting the clutch cable, I noticed it loosening up again. The double nut was not the issue and I believe now the cable was fraying further and further until it finally broke. That's fine, I can put a new cable in.

The bigger issue is an unreasonable leak between the shifter console and the transmission. I believe that there should be 2 studs with nuts holding the console on but in my case, there is one stud and one allen bolt. Not sure what happened to the stud previously. The bolt hole threads are stripped and the allen bolt cannot be tightened enough to close the gap between the console and transmission.

Any advice on what to do here? Heli-coil install and maybe a new stud threaded into that?

Broken clutch cable


Console leak


Allen bolt (socket cap screw, whatever you wanna call it)


Stripped bolt hole, threads are gone