MGW Shifter

[Epiphany]

Looks great, I'm seriously considering one. Hopefully there will be an install vid somewhere before my car arrives next month.

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[Colleton]

Awesome, thank you!! :cheers:

 

[Trackaholic]

Been checking the MGW website for this for months, so thanks for posting. Looks like I'll need to call and get one on order ASAP!

-T

 

[Tomster]

"If you cross thread this bolt......it would be very bad". This is in all seriousness a great video

Edited to add: just finished watching the video.... George, this is a feat of engineering. Very nice work. I wish you were around the corner.

 

[MGW]

"If you cross thread this bolt......it would be very bad". This is in all seriousness a great video

Edited to add: just finished watching the video.... George, this is a feat of engineering. Very nice work. I wish you were around the corner.

You ARE right around the corner!!!! lol...Man i have had guys drive down from Canada for installs

George

 

[Tomster]

You ARE right around the corner!!!! lol...Man i have had guys drive down from Canada for installs

George

Almost 6 hours drive around the corner each way (Daytona). Do you ever come down for the races?

 

[Spacebird]

I just installed mine, and I'm posting here to share my experience and ask questions of the good people at MGW.

I followed the YouTube instructions step-by-step, which made for a relatively easy install. I used jackstands and a floor jack to lower the transmission. Lying on my back wasn't ideal, but I managed to get it done in about 4 1/2 hours with a lot of time to pre-assemble, watch the video, rewatch the video, re-assemble, rewatch the video, etc.

Compared to the video, it seems that my shifter is far closer to the driver side. Has there been a change in the manufacturing of the piece that connects the shifter arms to the front bolt? It's not as if there's much room for margin in the install.

Also, I got to the end of the installation and looked in the box to find this:

Is this meant to replace the stock shift boot? I installed the stock one per the instructions, but replacing it with this one won't be too difficult. Now that I think about it, the stock shift but didn't look anything like the one in the video. Mine was corrugated, while the one in the video was not.

 

[ForTehNguyen]

need that dust cover to keep dirt and dust out of the shifter, its exposed to the outside without it.

 

[Spacebird]

need that dust cover to keep dirt and dust out of the shifter, its exposed to the outside without it.

Yes, I understand the function of the boot. But it doesn't go anywhere... unless it replaces the OEM boot which the video instructions say to use.

 

[ForTehNguyen]

on the regular stangs MGW install uses both the rubber boot with the neck ziptied to the shifter lever and the leather OEM boot which is reused. On the shifter body there is a rim where the rubber boot locks into.

 

[Epiphany]

The shifter "body" isn't concentric to the hole because that happens to be the way Ford designed it. There are a few driveline iterations that all share the same stamping.

As for the boot, I got ahold of George and and he texted me the following...

...tell him to use the supplied boot instead of the oem one

 

[Spacebird]

As for the boot, I got ahold of George and and he texted me the following...

Sweet! Thanks!

 

[Varekai]

I think I wound up using the stock boot because for the life of me I couldn't get the supplied one on the shifter and I was getting that white crud on it everywhere and taking half the grease off the MGW shifter. Sealed up just fine so not too worried about it, plus the shifter has the dust caps on it anyhow.

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