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G'Day, I have just fitted a Muncie with a Hurst Shifter to my HQ but as this came from the US it is biased towards the passenger side. I expected this and assume it must be relatively common so I am interested to hear what other people have done to help with this. I assume you can't buy a new Hurst gear stick that bends to the right so has anyone tried bending the original stick to the right. If so did it work ok?
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Some people use cylindrical spacers for the Indy type. There is a Speco shifter available that has the stick in the centre like the HQ shifter. I used one of these in my L34 but the original tunnel hole didn't have enough clearance. If you want to bend the oririginal stick it would be difficult. James Edited by user Monday, 27 January 2014 6:24:35 PM(UTC)
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Thats a great question..I am in the same predicament...
What are they made of and can they be heated to help in the bend?
I know the HQ 350 muncie and the race A9X T10 had a special Hurst shifter lever but they are expensive if you can find one!
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Thanks for the replies fellas, I had a look around and found a Hurst stick diagram here: http://hurst-shifters.co...uploads/StickDiagram.pdf There looks to be a straight stick with a right hand bend and was wondering if when mounting it you also put a spacer in with longer bolts to push it over further. I am also unsure about the straight stick being to far forward but it might do the trick, don't know about the reference to certain shifters though as to whether it will cause a problem or not. DR
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i had an absolute ball around 35 years ago going to Preston Motors spare parts counter in Keilor Road Niddrie every Saturday morning and buying or ordering every bracket, bit and piece including the console with bulge, and Hurst shifter for my '71 coupe.....even the four speed shift decal!! ...the plan was to convert my HQ GTS350 from the TH auto to the Muncie rock crusher manual....utilising the original mechanical clutch gear arrangement... ....not too sure if it was common sense prevailing, but the conversion never happened and still very proud to be in the possession of all the boxes, packets, and envelopes with all of these brand new individual items within, for what was considered at the time....a genuine 'nth degree conversion..... ...the Muncie was the last thing required as there were a few with the 31 spline output shaft coming up for sale from time to time, but now i find myself a bit horrified at the prices these things command....oh well!.... ....i'll try to post a pic of the "shapely" Hurst shifter and HQ gear knob......cheers fellas Edited by user Wednesday, 29 January 2014 6:00:15 AM(UTC)
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I cut the flange off the shifter and welded a flat plate to it,drilled and tapped the plate, then made a matching plate with a round stick welded to it so it bolts on and brings the stick up in the centre of the console,similar to a hktg shifter.
there is a guy who sells hq stuff at swap meets Greg Thackray,he was doing reproduction hq hurst shifters and sticks
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Thanks for your replies fellas. I will have give Hurst a call and see if they are able to help, if not is there any contact details for Greg Thackray for the reproduction stuff?
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I dont think this is repo though.. Is this Mr Thackray's site? I do see one every year at the ballarat swap which is around the same price as this set up.. http://www.ebay.com.au/i...ries&hash=item27dbc9d142Edited by user Tuesday, 4 February 2014 6:36:46 AM(UTC)
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Some pics of the HQ 350 shifter    Same shifter was fitted the the A9X super T10 as far as I am aware!!  Edited by user Tuesday, 4 February 2014 7:07:56 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for the photos high voltage very helpful mate. I sat the console in place and it looks like the gear stick is too far forward as well. It may be worth making my own gear stick up (bent to the right and back a bit) then get it chromed, do you think this would affect the Hurst shifter operation? Has anyone had a crack at making their own gear stick?
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Geeze are they really worth that much!..better not tell my mate who sold me his + muncie
in '85ish when he went T400.
Sorry to side track this but its got me wondering if I've got an imported Muncie or a HQ box now.
I've searched previously but havnt found info on box ID but found the codes for the
production numbers so got that sussed but can someone point me in the right direction to check it out?
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