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So I am driving down road today and I shift into second gear when I hear something hard and metallic bounce up under my car and exit at the rear and bounce down the road behind me...all of a sudden I can't shift into gear...

I was able to get it into third and limp it home, but damn! Anyone ever have this happen? I haven't even taken it to the drag strip or anything. Not like I drive it hard.
Any ideas what the heck fell off? it's dark and I couldn't see a damn thing.

I had Ford install my comp. plus billet shifter, and the guy hadn't ever installed a new Hurst before. So maybe something was loose??

I bought it from 07stangGT....
Will Ford be able to get a replacement part from Hurst or what...
 
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the one thing you can check tonight is take the boot off from inside the car. This is easy and would only take a minute.

see if the entire shifter is moving when you are trying to shift. If so then i would guess either the front bolt has come out, or the bracket fell off and if the shifter is moveing at all it wont go into gear.

another thing would be to look at the stop bolts. If the nut fell off the stop bolt and the bolt moved forward then it would prevent you from shifting into either 1, 3, 5 or 2, 4, r depending on which one it is.

Here is a picture the billet hurst is on the left, you can see the two stop bolts.

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You would think they would know what they are doing...if they installed it. the Shelby and the KR have hurst shifters...don't know if they are the new Hurst or not, but regardless I can't understand why some part would get loose and go flying off like that...what a joke.
 
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07stang...Thanks for always being here...lol..

I checked that...first thing I did when I pulled over...the whole bracket seemed to be moving...

So will ford be able to get that from hurst or what would you suggest...
 
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oh and by the way. my experience with the dealership installing my old hurst. when i got there as i was walking in i saw my stock stick on the shifter. so im like wtf they didnt change my shifter.

I had them do it becuase i got the shifter when i got the gears installed and just had them do it.

So the service manager says no the new shifter is on but the handle wont fit, when you put it in first your hand hits the stereo. I said what do you mean that is the same shifter that comes on the shelby gt, it fits.

Anyway long story short they dont know wtf they are doing.

he also had my stock stick on the wrong side so in 1st and 2nd the stick was rubing the console.
 
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rickles512 said:
07stang...Thanks for always being here...lol..

I checked that...first thing I did when I pulled over...the whole bracket seemed to be moving...

So will ford be able to get that from hurst or what would you suggest...
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The whole bracket is moving? you mean the shifter or the rear bracket that holds the shifter on? i would geuss then that the bolts that hold the bracket on came out. and i hope that doesnt mean they striped the studs while putting it on. either way you just re use the stock bracket so yes they can get it. just let me know if you need anything.
 
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Thats my experience too...when I first had it installed, the rubber boot that fits over the shifter, the guy didn't even put that on...he put it in the box with my stock shifter....so after I left the dealer, i can hear the road under the car and its like 150 degrees in the car...wtf....

And then, the two bolts on the stick wiggled loose in about 20 minutes of shifting...I think I talked to you about that after I bought it...

Long story short, I love the shifter, I just am really unhappy with Ford and my experiences with them...
 
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HMUSN said:
but it wouldn't have gone bouncing down the road if it was the shift stops.
my guess is the bolt the hooks to the extra arm the 99-04 guys don't have
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Yes if the lower boot isnt pulled down like mine, the nut on the stop bolt can hit the road, there is nothing stoping it. once you pull the rubber boot up from where it seals around the hole in you car your looking at asphalt.
 
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It's that long stainless steel metal bracket under the area with the stop bolts...when I try to move the shifter back and forth, the whole bracket is moving. the shifter itself is really hard to move...
 
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that whole metal bracket is moving when I move the shifter...I think my shifter is the one in the left of your pic?
 
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rickles512 said:
It's that long stainless steel metal bracket under the area with the stop bolts...when I try to move the shifter back and forth, the whole bracket is moving. the shifter itself is really hard to move...
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yea your talking about the shifter assembly itself. that beam you see in the picture up there right.

Yea a bolt came off either the bracket that holds the back of the shifter on or the bolt in the front came out.

either way you reuse all the stock bolts and the stock bracket so they should have it.
 
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