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KyleQ

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I broke my shift tower bolt last night - had the car towed, and after 3 hrs, I finally fished it out of the transmission. It looks like the bolt is a fine thread 7mm bolt. Where do you get the replacement bolt from? I dont exactly want to replace it with a bolt from Ford that will simply break again... I'm driving up to Tousley tomorow morning - I'll buy one there if I have to...
Any help would be greatly apreciated...
 
you have to get a replacement from Ford ... from what I understand it is a unique design ....

that or have HMS do a tower key mod on it.

but your lucky that you where able to fish the bolt out ...
 
BrApple said:
you have to get a replacement from Ford ... from what I understand it is a unique design ....

that or have HMS do a tower key mod on it.

but your lucky that you where able to fish the bolt out ...
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THanks for the reply, I found JoeM's in ~ 30 seconds - I did the same on my car - but the magnet got hung up and the head fell all the way down by the differential. I ended up getting a bendable flexible rod with a magnet on the end - IIRC ~ $6 and totally worth it...

I though you could use a SVTF (why is that in that order compared to CSVT anyways :shrug: ) shift tower i replacement...

I'll just get one from Steve - I ran into a similar problem looking for a 9mm bolt for something else as well.... Nobody carries 7mm or 9mm at all...
 
KyleQ said:
I though you could use a SVTF (why is that in that order compared to CSVT anyways :shrug: ) shift tower i replacement...
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you can use the the FSVT tower but then you have to also use the compatable shift cable which are now obsolete and you can't get them
 
BrApple said:
you can use the the FSVT tower but then you have to also use the compatable shift cable which are now obsolete and you can't get them
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Ahh - ok. I bought a few of the Ford replacement bolts and when I installed it I used lock-tite and mig welded the head of the bolt to the tower -I'm not loosing that bolt again :cool:
 
KyleQ said:
Ahh - ok. I bought a few of the Ford replacement bolts and when I installed it I used lock-tite and mig welded the head of the bolt to the tower -I'm not loosing that bolt again :cool:
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interestingly enough if your car is a 2k you should already have a focus tower, mine does but it was also a very late build
 
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