Floorboard extension/Shifter lever
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Floorboard extension/Shifter lever
When you put a floorboard extension on, is there also a way to move your forward shifter lever out to the left? Even with the floorboards where they are now, I feel like I have to move my foot towards the engine in order to upshift. This would only be worse if I moved my floorboard out. Has anybody made a spacer to let you put the forward shifter lever where the rear shifter lever used to be, or made a forward shifter lever with a bigger offset so it moves out to the left (more over the floorboard)?
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I put SOOS 1" extenders on my glide. I pulled the rear shifter off, went to an auto parts store. I bought a piece of black heater hose with a inside diameter just large enough to slide over the shifter shaft. Measured where the front shifter will set where the rear on used to be. Cut the hose,slide it on and bolted up the front shifter on the outside Looks good and is cheap. There are some chrome spacers you can buy for around $20. Hope this helps.Ride safe HMT
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When you put a floorboard extension on, is there also a way to move your forward shifter lever out to the left? Even with the floorboards where they are now, I feel like I have to move my foot towards the engine in order to upshift. This would only be worse if I moved my floorboard out. Has anybody made a spacer to let you put the forward shifter lever where the rear shifter lever used to be, or made a forward shifter lever with a bigger offset so it moves out to the left (more over the floorboard)?
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I went with the EZ-Shifter and then used a 3/4" chrome spacer between the Streamliner shifter peg and the shifter arm....It works much better now....Without that set-up, it was a bitch to shift properly/comfortably.
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You can buy one, several places have them. You can make one out of a black hose. You can do what I did and steal your mother's old wind chime and cut a piece of anodized aluminum down to fit. It looks great, like chrome almost.
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