Re: Oh No, problem shifting WOHOO problem found

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

Ah, the "Golf ball". They're like $30 and they come off with a 10mm nut
at the bottom of the shaft they're on.
	-Josiah



On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:16:34 EDT Captnbr@aol.com writes:
> OK, so I was inspecting the linkage for like an hour having my buddy 
> shift 
> back and forth and I finally found the problem. There is this large 
> bushing 
> underneath the car just in front of the Cat. underneath the 
> downpipe.  The 
> picture in the bently does not quite match what I saw on my car, but 
> it 
> appears to be the main shift rod bearing.  Well it was shot and all 
> crumbling 
> into little pieces and was not allowing the leverage needed to 
> select 1st 
> gear. I am surprised all the other gears worked.  So I temp fixed it 
> by 
> shoving cloth in the area where the bearing used to be.  I just need 
> to 
> figure out if it is part of the metal bracket or does this 
> bearing/bushing 
> just pop inand out, does not look to hard to fix though.  Thanks for 
> all of 
> the imput.  
> 
> Brian 86 16v
> 
> Brian 86 16v
> 
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