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.

 

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...

 

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

 

Hey there big guy.


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

 

does the short shifter have the skunk2 badge??

 

no it doesnt....

 

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.

 

its a webcam....it really sux!

 

apc short shifters have sealed bearings


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

 

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

 

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.

 

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!!

 

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


skunkworks = junkworks


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

 

ummmmmmmm ok

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

mine fit fine. i had no problems

 

haha i know thats like knocking off APC

 

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