fiend

i installed my revo ss about two weeks ago. yesterday i was driving the las vegas strip and the hex head screw that keeps the primary cable on came disconnected leaving me without anyway of shifting. took it apart there on the road and did a quick fix till i got home. took a better look at it today when i had time, got my tools and tightened it up and used locktite threadlock, lasted about 2 trips right up the road then same thing. i went to lowe's and got a heavy duty washer and long hex head screw (m5x20 was the size) now i know that screw is too long so i got out my hacksaw and cut it in half then installed that with 2 heavy duty washers and drove it around and it held up fine. took it back apart when i got home to check to see if that screw was still tight and it was, hopefully that will hold and i won't have anymore problems with it.

anyone else have this problem?

otbexige

Short answer to your last question...No, I've never had that happen.

Short answer to your post question...Yes, it's as good as people say it is.

Unfortunately, some have trouble with stripping the threads on the hex bolt and thus, it results in play with the shift length. Locktite should've worked and I'm surprised it didn't. My only complaint is the noise when shifting to 2nd, 4th, and or Reverse. I remedied that with some duct tape on the flat metal piece that is a bracket holding the cable linkage to the stick that uses the hex bolt.

Duct tape fixes everything.

fiend

im not sayin its a bad shifter at all, i like it alot more than my b&m cause it replaces the whole assembly and it lowers the shifter which i like alot. i was just pissed to have that happen, i think since the hex screw is so short to begin with i probably over tightened it causing the screw to strip, its fixed now...just wished they had made the hex screw just a few threads longer

m3gach33zy

I had this problem at first but that was because i forgot to put the washers back on. Took it all apart put it on right and haven't had a problem since. You might have put the wrong washers in the wrong places?

fiend

i had the bolt with the notches on it where the cable goes on one side and the hex screw with washer on the other side...where else could the washer go?

daragez

yeah as good as people say it is!...that's all...!

fiend

compared to what other short shifter? i had a b&m for 4 years, once i installed it had no problems at all whatsoever, a week after i put in my revo ss, i'm having problems with it.

m3gach33zy

good question. I just remember from the DIY it says that you have to put the washers back on in the same places or your goin to end up with errors. Oh yeah you should get the aluminum bushings that replace the rubber ones. They make shifting feel great. There's also ones that you can get for the engine bay but I'm too lazy to buy and install them.

You can try driving with the whole arm rest part removed and see how its shifting and see where it's playing around and add or remove whatever else is messing it up.

fiend

i have the aluminum bushings, and its not that it was playing around, the hex screw would not stay threaded causing the shifter cable to become disengaged, in the picture below where the blue line is, thats where the cable goes with a cotter key, by the grey line, thats the bolt that keeps coming unthreaded even with loktite causing the part where the blue line is to fall off in turn disengaging the cable

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i fixed it now by putting in a longer hex screw and washer, with the longer screw i was able to screw in more threads and its been fine since.

cwo715

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old revo good, new revo sukz

fiend

the screw and washers i got from lowe's are still holdin up nicely, i've been checking it every couple of rides and it still isn't coming loose anymore so i think it's safe to say that it's fixed now, for good