Shift Linkage broke today going to work
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As for me I had the stock links fail on me twice within a year. Not sure why this is so common but it appears to be so. Obviously I switched to Heim.
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Honestbob, I would be very concerned about yours. I did some reseach on this condition and most quoted 15 - 20k miles when the ball comes out of the socket. One interesting entry called the Harley a piggy bank for the MOCO. They always keep you coming back for more stuff.
When I bought my '07 one of the first things I replaced were these lame joints with heims, and I had a nice-looking SS rod a friend gave me. I wasn't going to bet when those new stock ones would break, so better just replacing them.
FWIW, you guys don't need to spend $150 or more on the high-$$ HD linkage just to get a decent-looking rod with two heims. There are quite a few on Ebay for $50-60, or just buy two heims (5/16" x 24 female) and put them on your stock rod or a no-frills chrome rod.
Last edited by iclick; 02-07-2009 at 06:54 PM.
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Great idea! I have several OEM POS joints lying around and I'm going to take one and put it in the tool kit right now.
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I have been thinking of converting to a heim joint shift linkage and while searching for a supplier of stainless steel ones I came across a company that makes both heim and ball joint type rod ends. I am going to look at the stock setup and see how it is made and do some failure analysis to see what may be going wrong.
http://www.midwestcontrol.com
Attached is a pic of their stainless ball joint.
http://www.midwestcontrol.com
Attached is a pic of their stainless ball joint.
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I have been thinking of converting to a heim joint shift linkage and while searching for a supplier of stainless steel ones I came across a company that makes both heim and ball joint type rod ends. I am going to look at the stock setup and see how it is made and do some failure analysis to see what may be going wrong.
http://www.midwestcontrol.com
Attached is a pic of their stainless ball joint.
http://www.midwestcontrol.com
Attached is a pic of their stainless ball joint.
Keep us posted.
John