This is a pretty old thread and since it has been brought back from the dead I thought I'd add a little to it. Don's shifter seems to be working ok now because he is just being more careful to make sure it is clicked firmly into park and he never starts it when he is not in the drivers seat. The fancy aftermarket knob and long stick are not probably helping the issue due to the added weight up top. But for all practical purposes it is fine now.

The only issue I had with the Lokar in my 23 was that sometimes, while driving along, if I hit a hard bump it would drop down from 3rd to 2nd. When it happened on the interstate a couple of times at 60-70 mph it is quite disconcerting! The fix was very easy though. I took the boot off and there were two jam nuts that adjusted the tightness of the shifter movement. It was very loose. But after tightening them up the problem never resurfaced, and I had taken quite a few long trips since with it never dropping into 2nd again.

Another thing I might add is that the original knob that comes with the Lokar has a button you push down to change gears. I liked it in the beginning, but Dan bought me a large Lucky Lady knob at Daytona one year and I put it on, with the required adapter. At first I didn't care for it, but learned to like it a lot.. In fact, I just removed it and reinstalled the original when I sold the car because it was a gift that I wanted to keep, and it was really hard to get used to driving the car with the original push button knob again. During the recent trip to the Street Rod Nats in Tampa I found myself having to guess at what gear I was going into.

Don