What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[PaulE]

Originally Posted by Dubaday

Hi PaulE,
Would you be so kind and provide pictures please?
I would like to compare my ben006 short shifter to yours and figure out if my slop
issue is due to the same issue you are having. Thank you in advance!

Randy

Hi Randy, I did not take any pictures of the shifter as I found it before I took it apart. At this point it is ready to go back in once I get my new bearings from Amazon, install them and the circlips and do the final bearing adjustment. I'll take a picture that sort of recreates how it looked tomorrow before I put it all back together.

One thing you can easily do is unsnap the bottom of the shift boot from the center console and have a look. You should be able to see that both circlips are in place and that there is no fore and aft movement of the shifter within the two cups. Assuming the circlips and cups are in place then maybe the locknuts have loosened, if that is the case I think you'll need to remove the console to get the allen wrench into the ends of the bolt section to tighten them. If the sloppyness is due to the blue ball part in the white plastic yoke on the side, then you need the part that Ben is currently testing in prototype to fix that or another plastic yoke that hasn't been worn from an aftermarket shifter.

Here is a picture, as best I can recreate it without the circlips in place as I;m waiting for the new bearings. The circlip came out on the front cup, which allowed the cup to move forward, and that end of the shifter was basically flopping around.