NV-5600 shifter rubber bushing... Why?

[Tuesdak]

The shifter rubber bushing makes this trans feel like a an old h***. A weld is in it's future. I can't feel the gates very well. Enough movement that gates 1-3 feel covered while locked in 1st. After finding this I don't feel so bad about grabbing the wrong gear - 5th instead of 3rd at times.

Does the rubber bushing wear out?

Any reason I shouldn't weld it solid? Looks like core shifters offers a replacement 'Hurst' shifter without the bushing in it.

Just wondering if this is a good idea and why it was made this way in the first place?

 

[S.Morris]

It is an isolator and isolates vibration from the cab side of the shifter

 

[Wayne M.]

Hi, JDoremire, do you have a link to where that shifter is? I'd like to check it out...

 

[Tuesdak]

Hi, JDoremire, do you have a link to where that shifter is? I'd like to check it out...

Hope the link doesn't trample a vendor.
http://www.core-shifters.com/servlet/the-Dodge-trucks/Categories

They also have the New Venture Gear NV5600 shifter pivot ball cup bushing separate from the entire shifter...
http://www.core-shifters.com/servlet/the-755/New-Venture-Gear-NV5600/Detail

 

[Wayne M.]

Thanks much!

 

[Tuesdak]

Bump.
Does anyone know if a new shifter from Dodge tightened shifting up? Is there a large amount of noise with a solid shifter or welded factory part?

 

[Prairie Dog]

There's a hell of a buzz that comes up the shifter. Both the rubber mount and the weighted shift knob work together to squelch it.

Scott

 

[Tuesdak]

Update.
Installed a new shifter pivot ball cup bushing and this tightened up the gates a lot.

 

[S.Morris]

Used to be able to buy a isolater kit for Road Ranger trannies and weld them into the stick (to muffle the whine of a hard working transmission). Not sure if they are still available and don't remember Part # anymore. (cut stick....weld one end on transmission side and other end on cab side. Was a pin that went through sideways to hold to pieces together and allow separation if needed. M. Wilson will have knowledge of this.