Anyone ever use skateboard bearrings?

[Robby Camero]

I heard that skateboard or rollerblade bearrings are a great cheap replacement for the under the hood stiffer shifter cable bushings you can purchase from dsmpatrs.com and they are almost a perfect fit. I also heard they are sloppy with too much of a gap. Which is it, any one here tried this? If they were a perfect or almost perfect fit, these would be way better than the kit you can buy because of the much smoother movement with absolutely no play. these along with a shifter plate bushing kit would make the ever so sloppy 1g shifting seem like cutting into butter with a hot knife. Any experience with these bearrings?

 

[TRBOTSI]

Not sure about skateboard bearings but you can use roller blade bearings, They work great

 

[Robby Camero]

Thanx, just needed confirmation before I wasted time trying this mod.

I love these cheap but great mods!!!

 

[leet]

I use rollerblade bearings, and advocate them to everyone who will listen.

 

[TurboDSM90]

good info! this is nice

make it twice

 

[MiNiONTSI]

So the bearings fit without any shaving down or anything?

Is there a special size that you need to buy?

Thanks!

 

[leet]

Minion, Just go to the store and buy some cheap rollerblade bearings. They will press right in using a small C-Clamp or any other suitable tool to push them in!

 

[MiNiONTSI]

i'll give it a try, thanks!

 

[killab443]

Ive heard of skateboard bearings being used in honda short shifters, But thats honda and DSM are the shit

 

[me612]

i've never heard of this, can someone please expalin exactly what the rollerblade bearings are replacing? pics? tranny/shifting is one thing im not very knowledgable on. so i really have no idea what ur talking about replacing, but i would like to know cuz who doesn't love cheap helpful mods.

 

[doodie]

can someone gives some pictures of these bearings? I'm interested in these... Are they the ones that go under the hood? or under the shifter?

 

[leet]

Under the hood

 

[me612]

Originally posted by leet
Under the hood

where under the hood? im totally lost on this subject but really wanna know more, please enlighten me

 

[doodie]

If your remove your whole intake, you'll see 2 cables connected to your tranny. Theres 2 bushings in there that you can replace.

 

[me612]

ahhh, the two cables that are attached with little cotter pins to the tranny, gotcha, i guess i'll check that out tomorrow when we finish puttin the head on, thanx!

 

[AfflictedPast]

I did this mod today and after a test drive it seemed like it was harder to get into 1st and just a bit harder into 2nd, i had to completly stop just to get 1st to go in without grinding, anyone know if i need to adjust something to make this mod work better for me? first was never that bad before. thanks

 

[raped]

Originally posted by AfflictedPast
I did this mod today and after a test drive it seemed like it was harder to get into 1st and just a bit harder into 2nd, i had to completly stop just to get 1st to go in without grinding, anyone know if i need to adjust something to make this mod work better for me? first was never that bad before. thanks

i had the same problem

 

[leet]

Probably need to adjust your shifter cables...

 

[AfflictedPast]

Thanks, it's a lot better now. there's a nice walk thru on Vfaq for anyone that wants to know...

 

[BUCK]

I found a little plastic bushing that fit over the short little cog where the cable moves the Tranny Shaft up & down - really took a lot of slop out of the side to side motion of the shifter - ANY lost motion you can get out of these things makes a big difference - now I gotta have some of this Roller Blade stuff...

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

Originally posted by AfflictedPast
Thanks, it's a lot better now. there's a nice walk thru on Vfaq for anyone that wants to know...

Is that the 'Shifter cable bushing instal" Just instead of the brass things, you use rollerblade bearings?

 

[AfflictedPast]

Yeah, that covers what we are talking about here...

But i was refering to this http://www.vfaq.com/mods/shifter3.html

Ben

 

[90DSMTurboFWD]

my shifter cable is as short as I can make it and it is still to long to fit right over the nubbin thing. I was thinking about cutting some thread off one of the sies. that a good idea?