Shifter/Clutch Probs '89 200Q

[Larry C Leung]

Thanks. I think I will need to have someone else look at it (no time, no
easy way to lift the car safely.), BUT I will include this note. 

LL - NY

On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 20:59:44 -0000 "Brian Mole" <mole at ntlworld.com>
writes:
>
>> All fasteners are tight, and the sprinback (per Bentley's Section 
>34) is
>> biased too much for the right side (5th gear) side of the gate, but 
>it
>> doesn't seem to explain why the shifter is soooo sloppy, when it is
>> engaged in a gate, the lever can easily be moved from side to side 
>the
>> width of an entire gate 
>
>I (finally) solved this very problem on my coupe by changing the shift 
>rod.
>Having wasted some money changing the ball and socket, I crawled 
>under
>the car and had someone sit inside while moving the lever through the 
>gate.
>The problem was that the 'knuckle' on the end of the shift rod was 
>rotating in the
>wrong plane (as well as in the right one, if you see what I mean). A 
>rod from
>a breakers solved it (the knuckle is pinned to the rod and cannot be 
>removed).
>
>Brian 
>