Date:         Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:34:30 -0500
Reply-To:     Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Frankenshifter
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To:  <4794A1D8.2020208@earthlink.net> (Mark Drillock's message of
              "Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:44:56 -0800")
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Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net> writes:

> The lever was not cut. It is very common for that shift lever to
> snap in half right where that one is welded. The lever originally
> had a hole there for the set screw of the collar and the lever tends
> to crack at the spot of the hole.

Ah, now that makes some sense if there was a hole there for the set
screw, that would make it more suceptible to fatigue.  Thanks for
clearing it up...

On this topic, I thought I had the shifter all adjusted but road test
revealed that what I thought was 1/2 was actually engaging 3/4, so I
still have some tweaking to do.  The shifter FEELS much better though.

Allan
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1991 Vanagon GL