@Sacto Mitch posted:I found the stop plate very sensitive to adjustment. It took a few tries to get it centered.
Slightly to one side or the other, and one of the gates (1-2 or 3-4) was hard to find.
I guess each installation is a little different, but on my car, the carpet had to be carefully trimmed around the base so the whole base was sitting directly on the metal of the tunnel.
If the shifter sits just a little high, the stop plate limits the arc of the shift lever side-to-side, making at least one of the gears hard to find.
Just adding my belated agreement to this for the record. Shortish story - I asked Greg to look at a few minor issues during my 300 mile service. One issue - occasionally I was grinding gears up shifting from 1st to 2nd (I have a Vintage Speed shifter). It only happened when I went from reverse to 1st, then 1st to 2nd. Greg politely told me that I need to make sure that when I come out of reverse that I need to move the shifter to the far right when in neutral to ensure the reverse lockout engages before shifting to 1st. That was the issue (apparently I occasionally went directly from reverse to first), but his guys adjusted the stop plate a bit. During the next handful of drives I would have problems downshifting from 3rd to 2nd, it would find fourth instead. A few times first was hard to find. I tried to adjust the stop plate without success, but the plate seemed to be as far right as it would go. So I trimmed the carpet beneath the stop plate, reinstalled with the stop plate fully to the right. Three drives around town later and all is good so far. All gears confidently found - and no more gut wrenching, embarrassing gear grinding.