I bought the short shifter kit from Mark and he tried I don't know how many times to explain to me how to get the stock shifter off. I just couldn't get it. He even sent me a schematic of the stock shifter but that was worthless because it was so small I couldn't read anything on it and blowing it up was useless because of the quality. So there I was scratching my head again wondering how in the world am I gonna get that damn thing off. Well he kept trying to tell me that you take two pricks on both sides and push down. "Really, I said to myself" It didn't compute.........So today I tried again, but this time I put my reading glassed on and put a work light right next to it and look at it closely. I saw that there was a plastic ring underneath the shifter shaft so I said to myself maybe the pricks are meant to be able to grab that plastic bushing so when you push down the points on the end penetrate the plastic enough to give it a grip. Well the plastic ring kept moving around the shaft and I almost poked myself a couple of times but I kept at it.............and damned if it didn't finally come down. Yippee Kiyay Kiyoh
I am posting this so that someone doesn't have the headache that I had trying to figure this process out of taking off the stock shifter to replace it with Marks at Allison. A picture says a thousand words so here is a picture of the shaft and the bushing. You can't understand the mechanics of how it works until you see it. If you look close you see that the top of the bushing that is up under the shaft when it on the the tranny shaft and you can't see it .............has a lip on it and thats what keeps it in the gear shift shaft. that lip rests in a budge around the bottom of the gear shift shaft. So when you push in on the plastic bushing it lessens the pressure of it pushing out on the budge and you can push it down.
No wonder Mark had such a hard time explaining it to me. Only the Italians of which I am one or atleast my Grandpa was, could come up with such a goofy connection.
