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'75 308 GT4 (Peter)
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2002 - 6:58 pm: | |
That's correct Bret, it does go in the opposite direction (pull back on stick, draws shaft forward...). |
BretM (Bretm)
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2002 - 10:34 am: | |
To do it according to Ferrari you have to take off the gearbox pan and go through a procedure of aligning the fork on the shaft (it's in the workshop manual). If you need to adjust where the shifter sits in the gate then you can do it without taking off the gearbox pan, albeit that it's tricky, is best done with two people (one mechanic and then just someone to hold the stick in place, anyone), and will make you curse at Ferrari's one shaft shifter a lot until you get it right, but eventually you will prevail.
There is a lock nut underneath where the shifter shaft comes out of the body and heads back to the engine. Put it in neutral. I would start by marking where everything is situated first (stick, both locknuts, the rotator nut in the middle, also where the shifter goes into the engine, that boot covered yoke thing). Essentially you can change where the stick sits left and right by rotating the whole shaft and front to back by tightening or loosening that big nut on the shaft. You'll see more when you get into it. One thing to remember is that front to back is backwards if I remember correctly. I just got out of class so for some reason I can't remember how the shifter is set up, but basically the lever situation going on in there makes moving the stick forward make the shaft go back. I think about this whole backwards thing. You'll see what I mean when you get under there. |
Richelson (Richelson)
| | Posted on Friday, January 25, 2002 - 8:16 am: | |
How do you adjust the shifter alignment? |
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