Re: Grease shifting Linkage?

[Brad Sheridan <brads@mindspring.com>]

At 03:00 PM 2/22/99 EST, you wrote:
>I was thinking about putting some sort of grease, like wheel bearing
grease or
>something like that on all of the bushings and connections on the shifting
>linkage, to smooth out the operation, and possibly slow down wear.  Will this
>help? Has anyone done this?  Or will it Hurt?  My linkage is around 3 years
>old and it does not go into 1 and 2 as smoothly as I would like it to-- 3,4,5
>are not as bad.  It will always go into gear but it feels like something is
>stopping it just before it goes into gear and I have to put a little more
>pressure on it to get it past that "notch" and I thought some grease may
help.

I dont think greasing the linkages will get you anything but greasy
linkages. For smoother shifting, try replacing your tranny oil with
Redline. This definitely helped mine. Also a weighted shift rod will get
rid of that notchy feel. 

Brad


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