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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 11:57 AM
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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.
 
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 12:17 PM
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Can you post pictures of this ? I have read about it before so curious.
 
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Will have to take a couple of pictures.
 
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 12:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Pondskipper
I pulled the shift lever shaft and greased it up and refitted everything, replacing the stupid ball joints on the linkage with helm joints, shifts a lot smoother now with no more rattle from the shift set up.
One of the best upgrades you can do is replace the ball joints to heim joints
 
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 12:29 PM
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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?
 
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Old Sep 27, 2012 | 12:33 PM
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Ebay may not be a bad place to look.

http://motors.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_...ey+heim+joints
 
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I got mine from True Value hardware.
 
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Not a kuryakn fan but I bought the flame linkage. Very nice. It tightened things up and that linkage is a quality product.
 
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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.
 
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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!
 
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