My downshifter shaft came loose this morning. I was able to get home and tighten it down. My question is that I've noticed a slight freeplay with both heel and toe shifter and shaft. Is this normal.
I did use a lot of torgue on both screws.

 

After I adjusted my toe shifter for more room with steel toe boots, I notice they have some play. Bolts are tight though. So I don't worry about it. It rattles a bit at idle.

 

Take off the shifters and put a little drop of BLUE Locktite on the spline shaft then re-install levers with pinch bolts tight and let sit overnight.

 

2nd thing I did to the bike was to remove the heel shifter, insert the Kury spacer and move the toe shifter to the outboard position. While the shift lever was off I did a little filing on the inside of the bolt flange it so I could clamp it tighter. Also saved the heel shifter in my tool kit so I'll have a spare when someone elses falls off.

BTW. The first thing I did was put the Soos 1 inch floorboard extentions on so moving the toe shifter out that extra inch made everthing just right.

 

Love the heel shifter. Once you get used to using it you won't want to do without it.

 

Heel shifters suck. They take up all of the floorboard area.

 

First thing to go on the Harleys was the heel shifter. I like the floorboard area.

 

Riding with a heal shifter for 25 yrs now and would'nt have it any other way.....Should say,ya they shake a bit but never had a issue so why change,should of seen the set up shake on my 80 FLT...

 

Did the floor board extensions and then the extended shift arms. Have quite a bit of room on the floor boards now. Buddy of mine had the same issue. Internal splines were worn so he bought new arms.

 

Mine did the same thing, what I did to fix it was take them both off and switch them and it fixed the issue now they are both tight. I had the play in it and could not live with it. Once I switched the front with the back it worked just fine. 4000 miles on it no issues.