On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote: > The Vanagon shifting mechanism on a manual tranny is a puzzle to me. I > have not been able to come ot an understanding of it from looking at > Bentley and the Haynes Manual is not much good either. > > Can anyone describe exactly how the mechanism works? The part that is of > interest is in the front of the vehicle where the shifter lever housing > is located. I don't understand how the movement and positioning of the > end of the shift rod works.
John. This might sound far fetched, but if you had a video camera, you could record the movement of the linkage at box while recording audio of you announcing what gear you are shifting from/to. In fact, if one wanted to, they could do a video of the front box and rear linkage at tranny, showing each in a split screen (not sure of correct term) mode. Like they do on that tv show "24". "Bink, bink" sound is optional. ;) Neil. -- Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines |
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