Drilling a hole in a shifter reverse lever?

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Has anyone ever drilled an alignment hole in their stock shifter reverse lever?
For some reason the factory shifters only had holes through the 1-2 and 3-4 levers. The FSM shows a tool that clamps around all three levers for alignment, but I have no idea if that tool can be bought.

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When you line up the first two levers and do reverse last, you can see its where its supposed to be. I understand what you want to do but really no need for it IMHO
 
hi, first off, the lever is hardened steel. probably can't drill it. only way is to disassemble shifter heat lever up, let cool natural, this will soften it , now can drill hole, after drilling, reheat and quench it in water, this will make it hard again. we've done that to shift levers on transmission. just food for thought. I'd leave it as is.
 
Yep, the levers are case hardened so if you want to drill a hole in one you'll have to grind the spot you want to drill on both sides to get past the hard outer layer, then you can drill as normal.
 
Thanks for the non drill advice. The more I thought about it, the more I thought that it was not really a good idea. Especially the way my luck has been going of late with this car.
 
interesting, is that factory shifters were not drilled in reverse lever, yet after market shifters are. all my hurst shifters had reverse lever drilled. both are hurst shifters .
 
Here is a picture of my original factory Hurst shifter on the right and a Hurst Competition Plus shifter on the left. I installed an alignment pin to show where the path of a drilled hole would be through the reverse lever of the factory shifter. As you can see the Competition Plus shifter reverse is a little longer before the S bend when compared to the factory shifter. If it was drilled for an alignment hole, then a fair amount of material would be removed from the lever.

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