901 tailshift, tail shift adjuster |
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901 tailshift, tail shift adjuster |
Mike1981 |
Oct 22 2014, 06:44 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 212 Joined: 21-July 14 From: Detroit MI Member No.: 17,663 Region Association: Southern California |
Hello
I have been following this thread closely and saving my pennies to buy one of these adjusters My 914 has a tailshift 901 tranny and I just read this will not work on a tailshift Is there a similar tool one can buy to help with the adjustment of the shifter? The P.O. replaced all the bushings but I'm dealing with a renegade with a custom linkage Tranny shifts fine but finding the gears is still a problem. Im told trying to adjust without experience may lead to making matters worse Any help on this? Thanks Mike |
Dr Evil |
Oct 22 2014, 08:22 PM
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Send me your transmission! Group: Members Posts: 22,995 Joined: 21-November 03 From: Loveland, OH 45140 Member No.: 1,372 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
The tail shifter has a lot of slop in all of its internal shifter components, at the very least. Consider this, the stock 911 that uses the 901 has one internal slop point. The 914 adds two more points directly in line with that first one. So, while some work can be done to fairly easily remove the fore/aft slop (I have a solution in the works for this), the side to side is still pretty shitty. With a tail shifter I do what I call "quadrant shifting"; first is somewhere in this quadrant, 2nd in this one, etc.
A side shifter is a fairly cheap investment and can lend itself to some major improvements over the tail shifter. I have a nice improvement that is simple and makes the side shifter more gated than stock, so improvements for that system are available over the inherent improvement over the tail shift. |
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