I finally got the towers mounted tonight. The Q46 qclips were back ordered on purchase. Then didn’t think to prep and weather protect the plastic. Hit rain during first attempt to install then on Saturday.

Booyah

I made one of these for just the shit of it when I saw that the new magnets we got in at work were round in shape.

I was trying to hunt down this page to explain / show this to someone recently.  I will just put this here until I remember who it was.

I met Kerry Sharbakka at Sarah’s Abe Lincoln party last year.  Kerry’s ‘Constructed Visions’ put the oh shit!! response in these action shots.

When I first attempted to install this Shifter as it came there were several issues with fitment. The bushing on the ball at the bottom of the Shifter made the unit sit too high to be installed.  Another issue was that the bushing in the center ball was not properly shaped and did not allow the top cap to fit on top of the adapter ring when trying to bolt up.

I watched someone’s solution on YouTube that was to remove both of these plastic parts and install.  When I first attempted in this fashion it was close. But the end result was the sloppiest Shifter ever.  The adapter ring did not have a nipple to ride in the slot. The result of this is that the Shifter could freely rotate in the transmission. Plain stupid.  The adapter ring did have a threaded hole so I took a trip to home depot for my supplies for redemption.

I found that I was not able to find any bolts that were only threaded to a point then unthreaded till the head of the bolt. What I did find was o ring hooks that were the same threading. They pack was two rings and two nuts for a buck.

First I chopped the ring off and filed off the burrs.

Then I threaded the bolt out from the inside of the adapter ring. Once through I put the two nuts on the outside of the bolt to lock it down once installed in the car.

The plastic bushing that this will need to ride in needed to be filed down.  I didn’t go the route of the YouTube video advise as I could see this metal to metal contact causing a lot of vibrations.

The mock of it in action. Will need to thread it in until close to center.

The last thing I did was use sink a o-ring (also from home depot) as an upper bushing to keep this from vibrating off the top cap. 

Was on a call today at work when all of sudden herd the roof getting pelted. I first thought it was large rain drops but the noise continued to increase.

This is the first hail I have seen in years, might have been the largest have seen.

Didn’t see what it did to the car.. fingers crossed.

I found this silver goblet, wine glass maybe and polished it up with some mothers wheel polish.

After a little elbow grease was able to see my face.

The stamping on the bottom shows that it was made in Spain.