I Need help. In my 3300-4T60 swap, on my 86 SE, I tried an aftermarket shifter with an 8 foot cable that does Not want to work. I mounted the Shifter cable bracket to the trany and it's hard to put in any gear. I have the cable wrapped around the stero console. Does anybody have any Ideas? Mike was a 5 speed by the way.
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Posts: 12496 From: Nashville, TN Registered: Aug 2000
Fiero shifters work backwards from other shifters. You need to figure out some way to reverse it. I've always wanted to mount a B&M automatic shifter in a Fiero but the problem is the same.
To mount a conventional, aftermarket shifter in a Fiero and make it work properly is not a simple task. I spent a couple evenings on the computer with a CAD program figuring angles and lengths to finally get the Auto Stick mounted in the race car. Even at that, I can't get it adjusted to go into park and still make it into low. I can have one, or the other, but not both.
The problem with mine is the geometry of the shifter bracket in relationship to the arm. Since this is on the race car, park is not a big deal so I'm not going to try to "fix" it.
If you want to do it, just be aware it's going to take a lot of trial and error to make it work.
Bell-crank? .... They can be used to reverse pull & thrust directions as well as change the ratio of movement, used 'em in R/C cars all the time to make the servos do what we wanted them to do.
Norm
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No, it's on a TH125C. The cable bracket, shift arm, and shifter ALL have to be modified. You have to move the cable on the shifter to a rear attachment (see the pic) and the geometry of where the bracket is mounted is critical if you ever hope to get all 6 detents at the same points the ratchet shifter gets IT's detents. The aluminum bracket is an adapter that moves the mount to a different location and raises it a little bit.
John Stricker
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Originally posted by Kekipi:
I all ready have over $200.00 in this shifter plus countless Hours. Is the brackeet in the third picture of a stock fiero with a 4t60 trans?
Bell-crank? .... They can be used to reverse pull & thrust directions as well as change the ratio of movement, used 'em in R/C cars all the time to make the servos do what we wanted them to do.
Norm
Ah... I just got it, clutch peddle.
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I actually mocked up a couple of bell cranks when I did mine. The problem is the angles between the various detents on the TH125C and the ones on the RWD Longitud. transmissions is not the same. Some are close, but not the same. It would almost take a variable rate bellcrank or something exotic like that. No matter how I plotted the throws, none of them came out precise, but some were very close. A bellcrank would, however, probably come as close as mine did in the end.
John Stricker
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Originally posted by gt88norm:
Bell-crank? .... They can be used to reverse pull & thrust directions as well as change the ratio of movement, used 'em in R/C cars all the time to make the servos do what we wanted them to do.
