i read on another forum that when you put a short shifter on your car.... it will wear out your tranny faster? is this true or not and why?

 

never hears of such thing...


the wearing on the tranny happens from the way you drive not from the shifter i assume, i am confused

 

well thats i read.... can someone shed some lite on this topic? coz iam thinking of getting a short shifter for my car and i don't want to fack up my tranny by doing so. unless whatever i saw on that forum is full of shiet!! :madfawk:

 

when less experienced drivers (of course, not all of them) get short shifters, they tend to shift too fast, letting the clutch out too early, and end up grinding gears more often. that is what causes the added wear from a short shifter. as far as the actual shifter doing it, i can only imagine a really low quality shifter that causes funky shift linkage geometry to mess up a transmission, but usually you would know that right away before u even drive the car...

so all in all, if you drive normal, and not all speed shifter style, you should be fine.

 

Basically it's yet another overexaggerated internet myth.