Here's the extra work I did when fitting the Golf shift balljoint to a 6 speed ABY. The 034 how-to is on their website. Some of the work I did was to retain the OE spring, as I was not supplied the Golf spring with my new kit.
I slotted one of the original holes to enable me to move the reverse gate over a bit.
Then I modified the base plate to clear, using 2 M10 bolts to hold it in place.
Having run the shifter with the OE spring, I was not at all happy with the spring pressure required to hit reverse, so a bit of investigation revealed that the original compressed length was approx 1".
...and the spring was over 1.5" with the new ball joint.
So I took the clips off the ball joint...
...and then took the nose off the spring perch
The nose was a little longer than required, so I cut it down to match the clips I had removed (approx 15mm).
This created a spacer, which I fitted above the upper spring seat, putting the compressed length back to approx. 1"
Finally, I took a dremmel to the mounting holes, to slot them and allow for enough movement to adjust and contrary to the pictures shown by 034, I had to position the reverse gate as shown here (I'd taken a lot of time and care to do as shown, including slotting the baseplate more, tweaking the cage and lots more... and it wasn't anywhere near )
And finally, here it is all fitted and adjusted. The slots were essential to getting first, second and reverse to all work smoothly
I slotted one of the original holes to enable me to move the reverse gate over a bit.
Then I modified the base plate to clear, using 2 M10 bolts to hold it in place.
Having run the shifter with the OE spring, I was not at all happy with the spring pressure required to hit reverse, so a bit of investigation revealed that the original compressed length was approx 1".
...and the spring was over 1.5" with the new ball joint.
So I took the clips off the ball joint...
...and then took the nose off the spring perch
The nose was a little longer than required, so I cut it down to match the clips I had removed (approx 15mm).
This created a spacer, which I fitted above the upper spring seat, putting the compressed length back to approx. 1"
Finally, I took a dremmel to the mounting holes, to slot them and allow for enough movement to adjust and contrary to the pictures shown by 034, I had to position the reverse gate as shown here (I'd taken a lot of time and care to do as shown, including slotting the baseplate more, tweaking the cage and lots more... and it wasn't anywhere near )
And finally, here it is all fitted and adjusted. The slots were essential to getting first, second and reverse to all work smoothly
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