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Originally Posted by deshetlr
I installed a Seine gate shift kit and Ed's coupler. Only drove it a couple times but it is certainly a much more precise setup than stock (915 with factory short shift). For those of you concerned about this mod here is a photo of the finished product. Thats right, you can't see any difference. Biggest issue? removing and re-installing the console.
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For those (apparently few!) of us that keep the rubber AND leather boots, I've noticed for some time that when you move to the 1-2 plane, particularly the leather boot stretches on the R side and thus rubs on the Seine adjustment nut and due to the (I agree with others - but acknowledge Sherwood's comment) slightly weak spring action, tends to limit the free & positive return feel (more than fact) of the lever to the 3-4 plane - it's a bit sluggish and feels iffy on that last inch or so.
Placing a short piece of suitably-sized metal tube over the top part of the red spring bracket stops the boot interfering with the Seine play-adjustment nut as it goes up and down. I had a junk-box spacer that worked great. ID needs to be just enough let it slip over the top stub of the red tube on the Seine piece without wobbling, and allows the nut to move freely up and down inside this tube without touching the rubber boot or rubbing on the stretched leather boot, and just tall enough that with the nut all the way up (shifter in 1-2 plane on a 915) the nut/bolt end is still below the top of the tube. Nothing other than gravity to install, plus boots tend to retain it in place.
Further, securing a small strip of flexible plastic or rubber vertically on the outside right of the Seine spring bracket and running just over the top of the added tube (cable ties) prevents rubbing a hole in the leather on the edge of this added tube.
I'd also thought adding another compression spring in a curved-inward tube fixed above the nut to increase the spring rate a bit to address this, but all-in-all, now the lever freely returns to the 3-4 plane, I'm a happy camper again. Spring may not be very strong compared to 5-R side, but IMO it's enough, as long as nothing interferes.
BTW, on my now installed "hybrid" Seine/Wevo setup - with the Wevo gateshift inside the 915, the Seine spring with this added tube, OEM shifter 5-R tab/pawl retained (to keep R lock-out), but Seine 1-2 tabs & L-side tang removed (no longer needed), it works and feels GREAT.
Just had 915 rebuilt, and added the Wevo not to supersede any deficiency in the Seine re shifting feel & accuracy improvements, but for the extra insurance, since in theory it will prevent selecting two gears at once no matter how badly adjusted, worn or broken the shifter linkage may be/become...
And IMO, the Seine is STILL the best $150.
"Hurrying slowly" with a solid 915 with a Seine shifter is a joy... like Ed said, it's absolutely part of the charm.