Transmission Control lever (shifter) needed for an FS5W71B

[ecomike]

Anybody got a spare shifter, control lever for an FS5W71B transmission laying around they are willing to part with?

Yours truely is in need of one!

[asavage]

I could pick one up at a JY next weekend.

Actually, I have one here I could send you, and I could replace it with a JY one, I suppose. JY price would be under $10 I assume. My price would be higher. You have no JYs? Or no time? The gasser one is the same. I don't really want to send you mine, but if pressed I guess I could.

[ecomike]

I could pick one up at a JY next weekend.

Actually, I have one here I could send you, and I could replace it with a JY one, I suppose. JY price would be under $10 I assume. My price would be higher. You have no JYs? Or no time? The gasser one is the same. I don't really want to send you mine, but if pressed I guess I could.

Actually somebody drained the local swamps into my front and back yards so now all the aligators are at my front and back doors! You know the drill! LOL.

Just way too busy and way too far behind on paying work I am committed to do, to deal with it all. I have a mechanic friend who usually does the junk yard pulls for me along with some heavy mecahnical auto work when I am too busy..... or whatever, but he has been too busy lately to do any work for me too. He pulled and swapped out a Jeep steering column for me about 3 months ago.

Now don't laugh (too loud) but I have not been junk yard shopping myself in over 20 years, so there is a learning curve involved, who has what thing, that takes time. Actually there are dozens of JYs around here, but I could eat up a day or two driving around looking for the right one and they are scattered out over about 250 square miles of Houston, and they won't tell you what they have and don't have over the phone here anymore at the self service pick & pulls, pick a parts......

I have had pretty good luck buying new parts, used parts and rebuilt stuff over the internet and at the local parts stores, and I have better luck with new and rebuilt parts than JY parts. Of course the only place I seem to be able to find the control lever so far is my buddy AL! (or a week long JY hunt).

I will keep you posted. Let me know before you make your next JY trip as I may (probably will) still need one at that point. And I don't mind shelling out some real cash if you can get me one! I will front the money!

Thanks.

[asavage]

A couple of pics I took today (click on an image for larger):

[ecomike]

A couple of pics I took today (click on an image for larger):

Wow, that looks a lot different than mine. The part just above the cup that the bolt goes through is huge compared to mine. Mine is barely 1/2" on diameter where the bolt hole is. That one may even be a few inches longer than mine. The FSM shows a completely straight one.

What did that one come out of?

I will try and get a better close up of mine where the bolt goes through it and post it later.

[dlh]

different cars, different shifters, different applications.

240z-280zx take the shifters in my photo gallery from hybridz.

http://album.hybridz.org/showgallery.ph ... puser=8318

The plastic bushing on the shifter in my album came on the 280zx non turbo, the earlier zx's did have the small plastic bushings.

Depending on what car or truck you get it out of the shape most likely will be different. You might want to look for a shifter in the 720 trucks. If I recall they are straighter and longer than the z or zx shifters.

[asavage]

I think that shift lever is from the '86 gasser, whose trans is shorter than the '82's.

1986:



1982 (I see torch discoloration in two places):



1981:

[ecomike]

Well I got my Nissan parts order delivery today. They cancelled the order for the vac pump oil return hose, don't know why yet.

I got the small lower rubber boot, and I noted that the way the boot is made, it leaves very little flange area for the suggested plastic tie wrap to grab onto especially on the bottom side.

The plastic bushings proved to be interesting. They are square, not round on the inside hole area, with a small curved area on the top side that keeps them from rotating. The area where the pin penatrates my control level (shifter) is small and round and not elliptical (oval shaped) or stretched like yours is in the picture and not like the OEM Nissan bushings I just received. The bushing I received looks just like the ones on your shifter in the picture. I am starting to think the shifter/ lever I have is not the OEM Nissan version for the 5 speed. BUT the drawing in the FSM I have, the 1982 Datsun Pick-up FSM, shows the apx 1/2" round one with the bolt hole that looks exactly like mine, ???? But it is 4 speed / 5 speed combo drawing in my FSM!

The large oval shaped bushing and Al's picture of his shifter with the large oval shaped bushing looks like a perfect fit for the space inside my striker guide where the sift lever pin and shift lever goes.

I am going to pull mine next and inspect it and take a photo of it, but I suspect these OEM Nissan bushings will not fit the inside of my shift lever. I think I am going to find a round hole in my shift lever and the square bushing would not fit inside of it. I think I am going to need to get an OEM shift lever one way or another. A mechanic friend of mine suggested I just get an OEM shift lever and just cut the threaded end off to the length I want and rethread it and use it. I am strongly leaning in that direction now.

Lastly, I acquired a standard 1-1/8" freeze plug that fits the hole in the end of my striker guide perfectly, so I have solved that problem of lube oil leaking out there and dirt getting in there.

DLH, I could not view your pictures at the link site, it said I did not have permision?

By the way Al, should we move this thread to the SD powered Pick-up support systems area? Might be more useful to others there someday with the photos and all now, or maybe just post a link from there to this thread?

[dlh]

You will probably need to register on hybridz.org to view the pics.

[ecomike]

You will probably need to register on hybridz.org to view the pics.

Al, if you have not looked at his comparison photos you really should . . . [/quote]
Photos posted such that you have to become a member of a site merely to view them are too much work for me. I'll pass.