where to get linkage bushing?

[abatzis2@hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

trying to r&r my shift linkage. question first: where can i get the bushing 
for the main shift rod, that travels the length of the car; it's the one in 
a bracket, just back of the adjustment bolt?


now the long part, if you feel like reading:
installed scott rose's solid shift kit (stuff's in the mail tomorrow scott), 
and got a bushing kit to replace everything else. mainly, i'm trying to 
eliminate side to side slop, and found the culprit to be the bushing on the 
main shift rod (just back of the adjustment bolt). so on saturday i took out 
the old bushing, destroying it in the process--it was in pretty bad shape 
already.  to my dismay i found the bushing kit doesn't include this bushing 
for some reason. so since then i've been driving sans bushing, with no 2nd 
gear and 1st where reverse should be. no fun.  today i called dave at 
adirondack; they don't have that part (isn't listed in etka either).  
potterman's closed today, will check tomorrow. went to the dealer, and they 
said they only sell it with the bracket it goes in ($30). so, being the 
cheapass that i am, i got the bushing for an a2 instead (which they do sell 
separately for some reason), which seems the same except that it's a bit 
wider diameter. it feels better than before, but there's still a little 
play. and i snapped a manifold stud trying to loosen the downpipe (to get at 
the bracket better. ugh).


-Michael Abatzis
Hotlanta! GA
1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, prelim web site, but not taking orders 
yet: www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page1.html
1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...


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