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Had to work up in LA (Carson/Torrance CA) for a few hours on Saturday. Since I only needed my laptop and a couple of hand tools to do what I needed to do I decided to take the Porsche rather than my truck.
Well after clocking more than 300 miles up there and back – I made it home about four in the afternoon. But after being home for a little I realized I was hungry so I’d then decided to run around the corner to get something for supper.
I didn’t get far – when this happened.
In a nut shell - the rear shifter rod coupling came apart just as I'd finished shifting into fourth. But luckily I was close enough to home to limp home in fourth.
Can’t see it in the picture but the dust cover was torn up in the process too. But from what I can tell it’s a pin pressed fitting that came out leaving me with a dead stick. Talking to some of my fellow Shark owners – the whole assembly needs to be replaced so I’ll order a new one later on this morning.
But after a quick trip to the hardware store, I had the car moving with little effort. Used a clevis pin that was almost a perfect fit with two washers one either side & a locking slit pin to hold it all in place. Actually it went together pretty easy and seems to shift a heck of a lot better than it was before the pin came out.
That leads me to believe that the thing was probably ready to fail at any moment and the car choose that one moment in time to finally let go. Only good fortune & a lot of luck kept it from letting go a few hours earlier when I was a hundred miles or more from home.
Well after clocking more than 300 miles up there and back – I made it home about four in the afternoon. But after being home for a little I realized I was hungry so I’d then decided to run around the corner to get something for supper.
I didn’t get far – when this happened.
In a nut shell - the rear shifter rod coupling came apart just as I'd finished shifting into fourth. But luckily I was close enough to home to limp home in fourth.
Can’t see it in the picture but the dust cover was torn up in the process too. But from what I can tell it’s a pin pressed fitting that came out leaving me with a dead stick. Talking to some of my fellow Shark owners – the whole assembly needs to be replaced so I’ll order a new one later on this morning.
But after a quick trip to the hardware store, I had the car moving with little effort. Used a clevis pin that was almost a perfect fit with two washers one either side & a locking slit pin to hold it all in place. Actually it went together pretty easy and seems to shift a heck of a lot better than it was before the pin came out.
That leads me to believe that the thing was probably ready to fail at any moment and the car choose that one moment in time to finally let go. Only good fortune & a lot of luck kept it from letting go a few hours earlier when I was a hundred miles or more from home.
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