I would say if your the kind of person that never climbs under a van yourself, DEFINATELY necessary. If your willing to lube the bushings even once a year (I do mine at least twice), 5 min or less of work..... then it's not as necessary. It just keeps the dirt and water out and the good clean grease in. I have noticed a huge difference in shifting after a fresh lubing. A few years ago being the cheapskate that i am, i took the main shift bushings out completely, scrubbed them down and removed all the old dried up grease, repacked them and put them back in. They performed 100% better. I have seen the bushings wear to the point where they're pretty oval, but i think with a little grease from time to time, they do just fine. -Craig '85GL turned WESTY On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>wrote: > Last fall I installed all new bushings, boots, basically all the > replaceable wear parts from the shifter base back to the transmission. > I can't say it made a HUGE difference but the old parts definitely were > caked up with dried out grease and dirt, and it did get nearly all the > slop out of the shifter. Still not as crisp and precise as my '91 Jetta > was, but I guess that given the length of the gearshift lever and a > linkage running nearly the length of the van, there's only so much that > can be done. > > Allan > -- > 1991 Vanagon GL > |
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