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Offline R/T

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Help with slap stik shifter install
« on: July 09, 2006 - 05:15:03 PM »
I am adding a slap stik shifter next weekend and my main question is what would be the best way to adjust the linkage to avoid the problems . Such as hard getting into park? keeping it from holding only part of the way into gear? and any other small problems that I may encounter? Thanks guys
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Offline tactransman

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Re: Help with slap stik shifter install
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2006 - 07:37:24 PM »
I have seen alot of slap sticks that would either give you full park or full manual low , not both. The way I fixed them is to take the transmission shift lever off the valve body , cut about 3/8th of an inch out of the middle and weld it back together (to make the lever shorter)
It makes the ratio quicker at the transmission. :thumbsup:
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Re: Help with slap stik shifter install
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2006 - 09:31:31 PM »
the slap stick used a different shift lever on the tranny , you can either do as above & correct the length of the arm of get th ecorrect arm ,I would adjust it in park & see if it ratchets in 123 & make minor adjustments until it does shift right

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Re: Help with slap stik shifter install
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2006 - 04:56:14 PM »
Thanks guys :2thumbs: :2thumbs:
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Hemis and Harleys
2008 Dodge Ram Big Horn Edition  5.7 Hemi