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I bought a kit for a shift rod for my automatic trans. Decent quality kit, but the rod is hard as a diamond it seems. I wanted to cut the rod to length and thread the 2nd end to go directly into the rod end but there is no way. Just too damned hard.
One one end of the rod it is threaded and goes into a rod end, the other end is smooth and you cut it to length and had this slip on adapter with a 8mm x 1.0 threaded stud on it. The adapter has two very small allen lock screws to hold the rod in.
I'm not thrilled with just the lock screws holding the rod. When down shifting the pressure is pushing the rod into the adapter, but when going into park it's trying to pull the rod out of the adapter. With the rod being hard the screws have no way to bite into the rod, and the wall thickness of the adapter is .100 so I can't put too much pressure on the screws without stripping them. I thought about maybe taking my grinder and putting a couple of divots in the rod for the screws to get a bite on but again I can't tighten the screws enough in my opinion.
I can't make anything to heavy like a larger rod as the weight of it will be pushing down on the transmission arm.
So, how to lock this into the adapter?
One one end of the rod it is threaded and goes into a rod end, the other end is smooth and you cut it to length and had this slip on adapter with a 8mm x 1.0 threaded stud on it. The adapter has two very small allen lock screws to hold the rod in.
I'm not thrilled with just the lock screws holding the rod. When down shifting the pressure is pushing the rod into the adapter, but when going into park it's trying to pull the rod out of the adapter. With the rod being hard the screws have no way to bite into the rod, and the wall thickness of the adapter is .100 so I can't put too much pressure on the screws without stripping them. I thought about maybe taking my grinder and putting a couple of divots in the rod for the screws to get a bite on but again I can't tighten the screws enough in my opinion.
I can't make anything to heavy like a larger rod as the weight of it will be pushing down on the transmission arm.
So, how to lock this into the adapter?