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Date:         Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:49:58 -0700
Reply-To:     Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Linkage
Comments: To: Peter Wilson <pwilson@ORO.NET>

Pretty easy fix. There are several plastic parts attached to the shift lever, some of which you broke. They tend to get brittle with age.

About $30 in parts and an hour or two (shadetree) labor.

Things won't get worse, but it is a fix worth doing if you shift much.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Wilson" <pwilson@ORO.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:40 AM Subject: Linkage

> Hi, > > As I was pushing down on the stick shift on my '84 Camper to get into > reverse the spring mechanism seemed to let go. Now the stick shift > moves freely far to the left and I have to hunt about a bit to tell > Reverse from 1st from 3rd gears. It's taken a bit of getting used to > but it's not much of a problem now. > > Am I about to have no linkage at all? Is this the beginning of a bigger > problem? How much trouble would it be to fix? > > Thanks for suggestions. > > Peter Wilson > peter@peterwilsonworld.com


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