It took me only 2 hours this afternoon after work to make a new shifter. THIS time I used a short throw shifter that wasn't pieced together from broken parts. The first shifter was just an experiment to see if I could get the shifter ball where I wanted it so I used broken parts knowing I didn't have anything to lose if it didn't work out. It worked so well that I got lazy and didn't take time to make another from parts that I knew wouldn't fail. I'll post photos showing the new shifter I made today on my BLOG this weekend. Stay tuned.