I pulled the shift lever shaft and greased it up and refitted everything, replacing the stupid ball joints on the linkage with heim joints, shifts a lot smoother now with no more rattle from the shift set up.

 

Can you post pictures of this ? I have read about it before so curious.

 

Will have to take a couple of pictures.

 

One of the best upgrades you can do is replace the ball joints to heim joints

 

I'm interested in the heim parts and where they came from. I had a ball fall out of the shift rod when it was worn out. Pulled into town and tried to downshift with nothing attached. Pulled into a station and found a wire tie from a bread wrapper to hold things together long enough to get home. Where can i get a Heim joint to replace ehte ball joints?

 

Ebay may not be a bad place to look.

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_...ey+heim+joints

 

I got mine from True Value hardware.

 

Not a kuryakn fan but I bought the flame linkage. Very nice. It tightened things up and that linkage is a quality product.

 

Mine fell apart while my indy was working on it. I did away with the factory style and went with:
http://www.dragspecialties.com/produ...roduct%2F73826
It has a heim joint. Seems a lot better but perhaps another thing to rattle some.

 

Heim joints from H-D are part #33871-85B (sifter rod end) and were about $9.75 ea. a while ago. Cheaper can definitely be had elsewere!