hahaha....i got the stock shifter unbolted and taken out ok. I looked at the hardware the Skunk2 shifter came with, there were 3 or 4 extra peices that i didn't even need; i was like, wtf is all this shit for?. one thing i didn't find out until today was that other shifters reuse the stock bearing. Skunk2 uses it's oun sealed bearings. but as of now, it's installed, didn't take more than an hour.