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Old 08-25-2003, 04:18 PM
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Unless you can feel a discernible engine vibration, this is probably just a "sympathetic vibration". The natural frequency of the shift lever is apparantly about 40 cps and it isn't well damped. Even a small engine vibration will add energy to the shift lever until it's going like crazy.

There are a couple ways to get rid of it:

You can stiffen or loosen the lever or its mounting system until its natural freqency is out of range of the driver.

You can add a damper to the lever to absorb the vibration energy. Maybe a heavy rubber sleeve that can be hidden by the shift lever boot.

But I ain't guaranteeing anything...
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