BigZ88

Ok, anyone with a skunk2 shifter please look. I just bought this off a guy on parts trader. He said its a new skunk2 short shifter that has never been used. I got the shifter and **** for 125. However, just trying to play around, i cant even get the shift **** to fit the shifter. I dont know what the hell the problem is. It gets like 1.5 turns then stops. Also on the threads of the shifter the paint or whatever is coming off and it almost looks like copper colored underneath. I think i got ripped. However it does have sealed bearings which imitations normally dont have, and the shift **** seems legit. Here are some pics however crappy they may be.

SkyeC

Just before anyone that actually knows the answers replies; I thought I read some posts awhile back about the 'new' Skunk2 shifters/***** not threading and people having to re-thread or return them?

Worse comes to worse you can always tap/die and make it work...

BigZ88

are the shifters supposed to have a skunk 2 badge on them like in the photo's on the website?

fOmaNPu

Hey there big guy.


[Modified by fOmaNPu, 8:04 PM 10/8/2002]

.honda.

does the short shifter have the skunk2 badge??

BigZ88

no it doesnt....

dphi

Don't worry about the badge, it's just a sticker. The first thing I did with mine was take the sticker off. The shifter does look real, although it's hard to tell in those horrible pictures.

BigZ88

its a webcam....it really sux!

slowEJ6

apc short shifters have sealed bearings


you need to take better PICS y0....hard to tell with those.

BigZ88

these are the best i can do....sorry guys... please help

tonyxcom

that is a skunk shifter and ****.

Skunk messed up on the design of the shifter and the paint is too thick on the threads keeping a metal **** from screwing on.

Take a dremel with a wire brush tool or just a stiff wire brush and scrape the paint off the threads.

Then put a couple of drops of oil in the shiftknob when you screw it on.
Then unscrew/screw it a few times. Then clean the inside of the shiftknob with brake cleaner or compressed air.

you should be golden then.

I highly doubt that companies would make knock off skunk products.

BigZ88

Yea thats exactly what it seems like, except for the copper color under the paint....guess i need to get a damn wire wheel for the ol' dremmel

THANKS FOR THE HELP!!

Black_eh2

telling you skunk that's probably why that guy sold it to u.


skunkworks = junkworks


[Modified by SleeperEG6, 9:49 PM 10/8/2002]

BigZ88

ummmmmmmm ok

owen_the_soyboy

the copper color could very well be a "copper flash" - - - > which is a quick/thin plating/coating of copper that allows for better adhesion (sticking) of the final plating color/type.

I too have a skunk2 shifter, yours looks just like mine and you got a good deal on a **** and shifter so be happy dude

fire7882

Well i love my skunk 2 shifter and i would say you have the real thing

BigZ88

whew! thanks...did u have problems with the **** fitting?

owen_the_soyboy

I used a different knobby ****, saw-weeeee.
(but if I had a deal as good as yours then I would have bought one)

EkREV

yah, you just have to re-thread the threading for the shiftknob to fit properly.

fire7882

mine fit fine. i had no problems

Kamin

haha i know thats like knocking off APC

yaya

skunk 2 short shifters are cheap POS

BUT when i put my stock shift **** on the shifter lever it feels really really good, that skunk2 **** is way too heavy