Quote Originally Posted by stovens View Post
Roger, How was dialing in the Lokar shifter(I have a nostalgia shifter in the Ford truck). Mine frustrated me so much because if I dialed it in for park and drive, it would want to jump in gear in neutral. If dialed in for neutral. it doesn't want to reverse right. Was driving me nuts, one of the big reasons I still don't have my truck back, is because my friend Randy has been having similar problems. It might just be the tightness of the gear distance on the shifter linkage on the C6 transmission, but it is anything but simple!
Steve, it sounds to me like your nostalgia shifter & the lever arm on the transmission shaft are not matched. The LOKAR comes with the shifter all assembled, other than the mounting brackets that attach to the tranny to form a base for the shifter, plus it has a new arm for the transmission shaft so that the linear distances of the two parts, shifter arm and transmission arm, match. Also, each is specific to the transmission they are mounted on - the shifter "kit" is ordered so that the shift spacing matches exactly to the transmission it's mounted on. If yours didn't come with a new tranny arm they "assume" that it's OEM, and it may have been changed at some point?

My problem was the neutral safety switch (NSS) adjustment. It comes with a nifty little aluminum plug that installs in place of the NSS as the right side support bracket is allowed to move to get everything centered, and is then tightened down. Mine was just a hair out, allowing the NSS to remain closed in Drive - not an acceptable feature. After a few attempts following the instructions I examined the parts, and realized that I simply needed to shift the right side bracket a smidgen to get everything where it needed to be. I think that the little aluminum plug had just a bit too much clearance for some reason. It's all good now, and I seem to have all gear positions clean.