Does this look bent??

[Scat Pack Fever]

This is the middle part of my hurst shifting mechanism. It looks to me like the top part bends to the right (where the shifter bolts in) Unless it is supposed to look that way. I don't want to take the time to clean and rebuild it if it isn't right.

[ChallengerHK]

It does bend to the right, but I don't know whether it should or not.

[Super Blue 72]

It does seem to bend to the right, but is it supposed to be that way?  If you look at the bottom of that part where it rides on the shaft, the bottom is no all the way to the right because there's a press pin there, moving the bottom part slightly to the left.  Is that why the top is slightly to the right?    Might be an optical illusion.

You coul always take apart the inner piece and lay it flat to see if it is bent.  Looking at the springs and all, it looks like it is positioned to the right and is allowed to be pulled to the left?    I have no idea....I have an automatic... 

[Chryco Psycho]

Not to me , the top looks bent compared to the body but it is help out by the roll pin at the bottom
I set a straight edge on you picture , it is straight / optical illusion 

[Scat Pack Fever]

I was kind of thinking the same thing about the optical illusion. That is very thick metal to bend by shifting it.  Plus the fact that it wraps around which would make it even harder to bend.

[ChallengerHK]

I don't think it can be an optical illusion, but there may be something I don't know about that. Generally, if an imaging system was going to cause a distortion, perspective lines would either a) converge, b) diverge, c) form a "pincushion" (think black hole), or d) create barrel distortion (opposite of black hole). I've never seen an optical system create two sets of parallel lines from one set, like this highlighted image.

[Super Blue 72]

I'm not familiar with these parts but from the image, I assume that the inner piece is not going straght up and down (as illustrated by the red line) because of the press pin in the shaft near the bottom of the inner piece, pushing it to the left at the bottom.  The red line illustrated that the inner piece looks straght but just cocked over to the right at the top due to it being coccked over on the bottom to the left.

Had it been straight up and down (which it appears it is not), it would run parrallel to the blue line which is the outer piece.  Just my 

[Scat Pack Fever]

I'm not familiar with these parts but from the image, I assume that the inner piece is not going straght up and down (as illustrated by the red line) because of the press pin in the shaft near the bottom of the inner piece, pushing it to the left at the bottom.  The red line illustrated that the inner piece looks straght but just cocked over to the right at the top due to it being coccked over on the bottom to the left.

Had it been straight up and down (which it appears it is not), it would run parrallel to the blue line which is the outer piece.  Just my 

Very true. I would take it apart and be done with the whole "Bent" thing, but they are hard to put back together.

[Super Blue 72]

You could, without taking it apart, just put a straight edge/ruler up to the inner part the shifter bolts up to and see if it's bent...