Re: 5k shifter bushing?

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

On the coupe there is a big sorta plastic bearing assembly, costs about
$60, that keeps the pivot area of the shift lever in place.  Yours must
be falling apart, like they do every 150,000 miles or so.  On the coupe
it bolts to the body sheet metal.  the shifter still works when they
fail but symptoms are as you describe.

It wouldn't be called a spacer-bushing. My fiche calls mine a "ball
housing".

> I need to replace whatever bushing is giving me trouble with the
> shifter. When you shift to 2nd or reverse, you often get nothing. As
> suggested, pulling on the shift knob or putting the appropriate torque
> on it does make it go into 2nd gear reliably. Unfortunately reverse is
> not so easy to please, since you have to push the shifter down to get
> reverse, and it's not fun spending a few minutes trying to find reverse.
> Also, the shifter seems to be very far back, with respect to the center
> console. It about hits the "support ring" (the four-winged box around
> the shifter) when in 2, 4, or R, and it has lots of room to the front
> when in 1, 3, or 5. I'm not aware of an adjustment along this axis. The
> side-to-side location, which I understand how to adjust, is fine.

-- 
Huw Powell

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82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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