Kirkham Motorsports Assembly Manual

[David Kirkham]

This is what we are trying to pull out.

We will save the pivot cup and the pin. We will rejoice as we throw away the lever arm--we are going to exchange it for billet stainless!

[David Kirkham]

You will need to pull this piece out of the shifting mechanism as well. It is pretty easy to just grab with your fingers and pull it out.

[David Kirkham]

Now that everything is out, we are going to turn the shift box around to position the shifter where the racing gods meant it to be. Loosen the 6 bolts that hold it down. You will need a 1/2 wrench or socket for that.






Make sure you put all the bolts and parts in a nice clean place. Here Sandwich is using a new paper towel. We don't want no stinkin' boogers on our parts.

[David Kirkham]

Then GENTLY pry up on the back of the shift box with a pry bar. The box will lift up. It is only held down with silicon. Gently does not mean play tug-of-war with the pry bar. I assure you--you will lose. Gently means GENTLY!!! If you have to pull hard, the pry bar will slip and you will wake up staring at the ceiling (or staring at your buddies laughing at you) as you will be knocked out by the roll bar smacking you in the back of the head as you fly backwards. Also, when you wake up you will easily find the one bolt you forgot to pull out.

[David Kirkham]

Here it comes up. You can also GENTLY hit the side of the shift box with a rubber mallet to loosen it up.

[David Kirkham]

Here the shift box is removed. Notice the yummy silicon that we have to CLEAN off! Also, notice there are 2 sockets that can be used for the shift lever! We just pulled the shift lever out of the rear socket and we are about to put it into the front socket. All you have to do is turn the shift box around and you mover the shifter forward. We are now going to move the shift lever from the rear socket to the front socket.

[David Kirkham]

BUT FIRST!!! We must CLEAN!!! That is our FAVORITE thing to do! Take a razor and clean the silicon off the shift box. (Be careful not to clean the skin off your fingers while you are at it.)