Re: Cgt Shifter linkage

["Jeremiah Curry" <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>]

I'ts fixed now.  I didn't have time to wait for e-mail as I was stuck.  But
the shifter still feels somewhat notchy and not very smooth

Jeremiah
-----Original Message-----
From: Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>
To: Jeremiah Curry <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Cgt Shifter linkage


>Did I miss your cry for help?
>
>I gotta go look at my 84 parts car first...
>
>oops, can;t get my head under it it has a flat tire.
>
>Well, there's pix of the old style stuff on my web sitelinked form the
>file where I describe how I set upa short shift modification.  Sometime
>they went to a different mechanism, which can't be disassembled, big
>block of pivoting stuff in the middle.
>
>There's also the white plastic bearing which I see go bad more often,
>the vertical lever pivots in it, when they fall apart it's hard to find
>gears.  Bought one once for about $60 new.  Glad you got it fixed
>though, and cheap it sounds like!
>
>>     My '84 Coupe GT has been hard to get into first gear for some time
now.
>> Lately 5th was hard too, and today I put the shifter were 5th should be
and
>> it went into 3rd. I called one transmission shop that said it worked on
>> foreign and domestics in the yellow pages.  they said "we don't work on
>> Audis".  So I took it to another shop and they said part of my linkage
was
>> almost broken.  Then they made some jokes about German engineering and
said
>> it was an Audi only part and I would have to take it to the dealer.  By
this
>> time I could only use 2nd 3rd and 4th gears.  I drove to the dealer
anyway.
>> they told me they might be able to look at it Wednesday.  So I took it to
>> the local independent local shop Alpine Auto they took it in and replaced
it
>> with a used part for 65$.  then I realized I left my backpack at the
first
>> place and had to go back and get it.  Please forgive the rant but I am
>> frustrated and I had to miss a day of work (less $$)
>>
>> laters,
>> Jeremiah Curry
>
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>Huw Powell
>
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>82 Audi Coupe; 85 Coupe GT
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