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<blockquote data-quote="fuzzy-hair-man" data-source="post: 775171" data-attributes="member: 15746">I bought one of these kits to fit to my mini (with a cg13de) the first one I got had heaps of slop in the ball and socket after a small metal packer fell out, so much so I didn&#039;t use it, the seller sent another, this one had no packer but the same amount of slop.After a while I decided to modify it, turns out the socket part is acrylic and by filing a mm or so out to close the socket closer round the ball it fits with no movement. I then had to insure a tight fit back in the housing so I wrapped the outside of the socket in ptfe tape I had lying around and put the circlips back on. I had 2 of these at this point and whilst reassembling it broke in another spot so I had to use the 2nd shifter. So fair to say even though I got it working I was not impressed with the quality of this short shifter, it looks exactly like the one shown here but who knows might have been a second or a cheap copy.Just letting people know and also sharing a fix.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fuzzy-hair-man, post: 775171, member: 15746"] I bought one of these kits to fit to my mini (with a cg13de) the first one I got had heaps of slop in the ball and socket after a small metal packer fell out, so much so I didn't use it, the seller sent another, this one had no packer but the same amount of slop. After a while I decided to modify it, turns out the socket part is acrylic and by filing a mm or so out to close the socket closer round the ball it fits with no movement. I then had to insure a tight fit back in the housing so I wrapped the outside of the socket in ptfe tape I had lying around and put the circlips back on. I had 2 of these at this point and whilst reassembling it broke in another spot so I had to use the 2nd shifter. So fair to say even though I got it working I was not impressed with the quality of this short shifter, it looks exactly like the one shown here but who knows might have been a second or a cheap copy. Just letting people know and also sharing a fix. [/QUOTE]

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