A2 Jetta question; hard to get into reverse

[roccit_53 at hotmail.com (C Boyko)]

ALso, mine had been stubborn going into reverse recently, it was (once 
again) the little ball on the "lollipop" in the linkage, it fits into a 
metal gate, and had gotten sloppy. New lollipop, cranked down, now reverse 
is easy as you please. So that's yet another part that can impact reverse. I 
believe A2s also have this part. This also leads to excessive "up and down" 
play in the gear shift lever, it shouldn't flop around a lot, if it does, 
you have a loose/damaged  lollipop. This can also give a very evil rattle, 
sounds like your exhaust rubbing on the frame. (hold the gear shift and it 
goes away, another little diagnostic)

But I'd suspect you jumped a spline or two, that seems to be more common.

It's really hard to stay on track here, my husband likes his new ball, says 
it will make him faster...
Cathy


>From: Andrew Wong <mkii_84@yahoo.com>
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: A2 Jetta question; hard to get into reverse
>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:51:25 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I'll tell my friend about the linkage adjustment.  Is
>there a special tool to adjust the linkage?  How
>different is it from the Sciroccos linkage?  I can
>adjust mine by trial and error, as currently mine is
>going to third gear instead of first, but was my fauly
>when I did it on my car.
>I forgot at the time when I was looking at the car,
>that I had the problem in my Scirocco with the
>adjustment.  I do remember it was my friend shifting
>the car when it was off and the next time it was drive
>reverse was first gear, but the problem was fixed.
>--- "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > Probably is the adjustment or the bushings or
> > both.  Usually the the linkage
> > > doesn't just go out of adjusment unless someone is
> > messing with it so I
> >
> > Not so! I've seen the linkage adjustment "jump
> > splines" a couple of times
> > when someone was loading a heavy object in to the
> > passenger seat and they
> > smacked the shift lever hard side-to-side. Once the
> > shift lever has moved
> > fully to one side and stopped, all the torque
> > created goes in to the
> > splined coupling and it can break the coupling loose
> > enough to move it a
> > spline or two.
> >
> > Check your bushings, but definitely check your
> > linkage adjustment as well.
> > A little bit of adjustment (1 mm) can go a long way
> > towards better shifter
> > operation.
> >
> > -Toby
> >
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>-Andrew Wong
>1984 Black Scirocco
>1987 White Quantum wagon
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