Air Cooled VW EMPI Hurst Style Shifter Replacement

When you going to start doing some work with the fuel injected engine

I just ordered one of those shifters this thing I'm going to like

Do you have a Part Number or vender for the rubber shifter boot??

I have the same shifter do I need the extra shifter plate or no?

Is nob replaceable

Sometimes an inch more is all it takes😂

I just installed This shifter with a nice rubber boot and chrome trim , in my 71 Karmann Ghia...!
It shifts freaking unbelievable...! 🎶🙏🙏🙏🎵. The pattern is extremely tight and almost straight up and straight back I could not believe how much better my Karmann Ghia shifts.....!!!!

Ok you sold me now where do I order the boot? Is it generic? What am I searching for.

Great video. I have a question I have a 68 vw beetle I just installed this shifter last night and everything is realy tight! My short shifter was loose like a spoon in a coffee cup lol I left the old shifter plate on and put a quick shifter on also. should I remove the old shifter plate? You think that would give me more play? And easier to get in gear?

Iv"e been looking into Getting one of these Shifters Thanks for the Vid

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Take it easy on the trans.

Where can I get a replacement wire or do you know what gauge wire that is? I have the hurst shifter and I cant get the wire to feed to the bottom of the shifter. Iv tried everything. And i tried for about 2 hours.

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This was a GREAT video man!

Where did you get the second gaitor?, I currently have the gaitor you replaced and I agree it doesnt look good at all. Help needed here, UK based. Keep up the good videos

Hahahahhahahahhahahaha. Loved your chat about missing. One of those situations that we all familiar with but nobody talks about

Just rewatched this (really great) vid as I’m switching out a flat 4 eliminator shifter and replacing with an old empi hurst style
Couple of questions if that’s okay.

Did you lube the new shifter at all before fitting? It doesn’t look like you did from the vid, but maybe edited out and did you have to adjust the retaining bolts after your test drive?

Guess the ball joint is worn out on the old shifter. What comes next? A compressor
to the engine and paddle shifters?

its actually normal for one of the balls to be bigger than the other.

Mine never says ayyeeeee!!!

Nice repair. Like that bleeder tool.

Very well done, Glen. I plucked and shared. I don't think folks share enough and this one is definitely worth a share! Thanks!

You keep yanking your shaft you're gonna damage ya ball!

Enjoyed the ride but that jackass in the white SUV at the end of the video got under my skin. I love banging on hoods when I’m crossing in the cross walk and someone is stopped covering the whole thing.

Those shifters are nice Enjoyed the ride !!!; )

Love my Tbar Empi Shifter!!! but im not able to fully use it yet, just found out my synchros on 1st n 2nd gear r crap do to original owner... but thats ok i want to change my trans......
Thank U Duckman for the Cruise in ur Rig Brother.... haha even tho it was virtual lol

Lets see new paint, fixed head leak, fixed breaks, new shifter, Thats has brought it up to a full 90 hp by now. Oh yeah new carbs it defiantly got 100 hp by now. And you fixed the shifter bushing it is pushing total of 110 Horses. I would have the machine shop cut out a new plate for the old shifter and maybe it will work too on another project.

I have tried every after market shifter and none works as well as the empi trigger shifter, I must have bought a dozen of them over the years.

Cool shifter, been thinking about a vintage Formula Vee one for mine. Great video!

miss that old vw sound

I’ve been thinking about that shifter for a while now. I may end up pulling the trigger.... no pun intended 😂

Ruby It's beautiful. ♥

It's EMPI...you're actually surprised they replaced the nice rubber accordion boot for a chunk of cheap plastic? ;)

WOW it shows how much different a short shifter with only 40% shorter travel makes I can see why the shifters with 50%-62% shorter travel are recommended for racing cars and not for daily drivers

Speaking of shifter columns...

We learned something yesterday: between the 1992 and 1993 model years, GM made a change to their NV3500 truck manual gearboxes - the older ones had a taller shifter yoke socket, the newer ones were about half the height.

How did we learn this? Well, the reman gearbox that was in Brother's truck when he bought it grenaded a coupla weeks ago, so we ordered a fresh one. The truck is a '95, so we ordered one for a '95 per the VIN. Got everything home, and the weather was nice yesterday so he decided to get to work installing it. Several hours and volumes of cursing later, it's in and everything's bolted down, so we go to put the shifter column back in - and the ball on the bottom of the column misses the socket on the yoke by a good 1/8". ...O!o...

One session of cursing and calling people later, we opt to give up for the day, and when I get home, I start looking, and discover what I mentioned above. Turns out the old reman gearbox was the early version, and the one we got was the type that was actually supposed to be in there. Thankfully, the proper column is readily available on eBay, but man, you shoulda heard us...

That flat four. That aircooled flat four. It just sounds ... so good. And this comes from V8 lover!

My bug has the stock shifter

some nice to see all those green trees and grass, we just had 2" of snow today

Nice shifter, from 64vw of nj

Where could one find that kind of shift boot? thanks Duckman ! great video!

I had a scat shifter and a berg shifter on my old bugs loved the berg but the s at was the shortest

mid america motor works in effingham illinois used my shifter for the photo shoot in the catalog a few years ago

I had a bugpack T handle which bugged (see what I did there?) the crap out of me. I picked up a stock shifter. This is on the trike so 2nd and 4th come close to hitting me in the nuts. The shifter would twist and the ball would pop out. Still some issues but try not to rotate when shifting. Great video. I enjoyed the crap out of it. Shifters can be a total pain in the ass. Enjoy!

It all seems kind of shifty to me