Hi guys, I was having a stroll when suddently my **** leaver went all crazy! I could not put the car on any gear. I took the leaver out, only to find out the GM really droped the ball when designing this part of our cars.



this part connects directly to the shift leaver on the second cable from left to right. anyone knows if theres a after market fix for this?!

 

as far as I know there's no aftermarket

 

freeking car has just 5,611 miles on it. shame on GM form making such a crappy part. Anyone had to deal with this before?

 

I haven't, but I noticed that when I took mine apart there was no grease.....whenever I greased my whole shifter up with white lithium, it made a world of difference!!

 

cavaliers have that also but the end where the ball is is just rotated different i have had that happen to me once already.

 

Others have had this issue after a hard no-lift shift.

Oh, and it's "lever" not "leaver."

 

Balento welcome to the club. Remember when we went to Vaca brava? That's the same part I broke, got it fixed under warranty and then it happen again last month in la fiebre. Just an advise go to Royal motors not Benitez at Royal it only took them 2 days because they usually have to order the whole linkage but at benitez it took them 2 weeks just to do that! I'm never going back to Benitez!

Good luck! Me llamas cualquier cosa!

 

yep same thing happend to me with about the same mileage.. hopefully there will be a short throw with metal bushings/parts

 

broke the exact same piece

lucky a local j yard had a wrecked one and i got the piece for 15 bucks!

and 5 speed cobalt 05+ will work, so check your local j yards

 

dang! well it did happen to me while I was NLS in 3rd but I didn't failed, darn thing broke anyways. Tried super glue and that also failed. Will get the car to the dealer I guess. I am very disappointed, making a sports car with weak, peace of crap links is just unacceptable. Thank you all for the information!!!

 

Everyone please step away from the NLS!!!

 

its the roll pin. this happend to me =(

 

I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what's in the picture but this has solved many peoples shifting problems. NOT cheap but worth every penny. I think they're having a group buy right now. Check it out.

http://www.twmperformance.com/shorts...rt-shifter.htm

 

I destroyed my friends shifter linkage while taking it down the 1/4 mile. Oops.. piece of **** design.

 

Mine is still fine

 

people are banging gears pretty hard, for no good reason. You dont need to punch out the stereo to make the car go fast. I used to NLS with two fingers. That kind of driving will grenade trans and shred syncros.... Trust me, ive been there with my old wrx. Now that im tuned and have an uprated clutch, i wont go near a NLS....

 

This^^

NLS is not nessicarly bad but Slamming the gears like you are trying out for the next fast and furious movie is.