A2 Jetta question; hard to get into reverse

[flaatr at yahoo.com (Euroroc II)]

Sloppy lollipop....
excessive "up and down" play...
holding the gear shift...
my husband likes his new ball...

Hmmm, nothing wrong here... Sometimes a shifter is just a shifter.

-Raffi



At 11:37 AM 9/18/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Am I the only one that found this post....um....perverse?
>
>
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>--- "C Boyko" <roccit_53@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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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