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Originally Posted by TAG UR IT
From what I remembered, the instructions were for the V8 shifters only. It's been a LONG time. I honestly don't have any idea what you were talking about with springs and hate to say that if you would have asked, I wouldn't have been able to tell you. Sorry... Would liked to have helped.
You have the stock GM hurst shifter. Nothing wrong with it. If I were you, I'd stick with it. This H shifter (with the white ball) has a tiny bit shorter throw. It's a great shifter and with the brass bushings...really can't be beat (IMHO).
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On the v6, inside of the upper dust boot (inside the car) if you look through the top of the boot, you can see what looks like a series of metal bars, think a little thicker than a paper clip. These "springs" are what keep the shifter in the neutral position I am gathering. According to the instructions thy hurst gives you, it says it will be necessary to work the springs in order to remove the stock shifter. This is done either by stretching the springs apart or by completely removing them. That's it. That's all hurst says about it. No pictures, no updated video online, nothing. They don't even make mention of it in the video. I believe the narrator of the video says that this is video is for v8 and v6 applications. I could be wrong. I called hurst, left voicemails for their supposed top tech guy extension 481. He never called me back, they know what the problem is, I jus think its ridiculous that you can sell a product and not give a detailed set of instructions for that model. You can't get to the springs, unless you do one of two things. Either cut open the dust boot gaming in you access to try and remove them or if you go underneath the car and look at the housing where the shifter goes into the car, you will see little rubber tits that are around the perimeter of the metal bracket. You would have to cut these in order to take the dust boot off. It does not look possible to push them back through the bracket and to remove that dust boot. I tried and couldn't do it.
For anyone who gets stuck on the removing this from their 6, I got mine out by pulling up through the car. I pulled up as much as I could then pulled it over towards 5&6 and twisted. And pulled up. It is come out that way. I tried to hammer it out and nothing worked. I actually think I bent my stocked shifter removing it. Not sure of if it comes bent like that from the factory.
The install was easy, it was just that one part. If hurst would pull their head out of their ass and do the right thing by including the documentation or producing another video for us v6 owners I would be able to give tem better feedback. Right now, I cannot recommend them to anyone because of their lack of customer service.