BDS body life
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JK Freak
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Somewhere Down in Texas
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I need a little visual aid, i'm about to install mine.
I heated the shifter after I installed the lift. I ditched the inner boot all together, even had to trim the sheetmetal top lift aft of the shifter, you know what I'm talking about. I tried trimming the shifter after I seen what it'd take to remove the short shifter porting the upper rod attaches to, it would create too much heat and ruin the seal among other things had I heated that portion as I'd originally hoped to. I sealed the 2" cylindrical gap with Great Stuff from Home Depot and it came out water resistant, sealed perfectly and it's quieter now than with the inner boot. I trimmed the great stuff after it hardened. It seals between the outter alum body of the tranny and the underbody about 2" wide and 2" tall. I heated the upper shifter up about an inch and it clears knuckles and doesn't bind on the upper shifter boot.