[Vwdiesel] Shifter parts

Travis Gottschalk tgott at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 3 09:33:35 PDT 2012


My brother had this happen on his 1980 VW truck as well. The plastic ball that it both pivotes on and allows the rod to be pushed down for reverse just broke out. Doesn't help the underside was designed around being enclosed and the parts ALWAYS rip off explosing all the moving parts to road debre. 

Travis G
 
 
Yup.? The plastic ball in there split or something.? Right as he backed out of the driveway to test drive the car.? So he was stuck there blocking traffic for a couple minutes until I noticed it flopping around underneath and figured out it wasn't just him having trouble driving a stick shift.
 
That caused something in the linkage to pop off, so we put it back and they were able to hold the shifter up to very carefully shift it and do a drive.
 
I had driven the darn car even that day just a couple hours earlier with no problems at all.? 
 
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Dave Cook
 		 	   		  


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