Ok. Like many on here I've looked at the $32.95 plus shipping brass bushings on ebay for the brake and shifter. No way was I paying that. I went to lowes today and bought a 5/8 o.d.x 1/2 i.d. x 1" brass bushing and cut it in half. Then I used a Dremel and a drum sander to open the hole in my shifter lever enough to press it in. Then I used a drill bit the same size as the bolt that holds it to the primary to allow the steel sleeve/bushing that goes into that and reamed the brass just a bit, and voila!!! She is tight and very, very solid now in the shifts. Harley still has the plastic ones for $4.10 ea. but I have $2.86 in my fix. Hahahaha.
Awesome fix for my sloppy shifter.
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One more thing. The bushing I got isn't flanged so once you bolt it down, you'll notice the bushing pressing out about a 16th or so. I used a washer with a hole big enough to go over that and smaller ones to back up against it between it and the bolt head. I'm telling you all, this thing freaking rules.
EDIT: I used a bit the size of the BEARING/SLEEVE that goes into the shift lever and cleaned it up some. THEN, I bolted it all up. Tried to test her out just a min ago but stupid thing is so cold natured now I'm on one cylinder. Gotta get hotter plugs!!!
I'll post in a day or two.I need to put some loctite on the bolt since it loosened up a bit tooling around on it today. Basically it looks as it always did except where the O.E.M. plastic bushings were, I pushed in a brass one. It's thicker than the stock one so I reamed the shifter lever hole some. Then, to get the other bushing through that, I drilled it out some. I'll do my best to post pics. Man it feels really crisp with zero wobble now.
