mblair0322@YAHOO.COM vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com Difficult First Gear Mike and Fellow Listers, Mike, If your Vanagon goes into first properly after you fiddle with the placement of the shifter (working it against the reverse detent etc), and you experience no other problems, I think that you should approach the problem as "shift linkage no longer moving enough to engage first". In my experience, this is usually caused by some portion of the shift linkage, including the shifter, coming loose, or wear in the bushings which carry the shifter either at the shift lever or at the transmission end. If you have worn bushings, I strongly recommend you purchase and replace ALL of them. If the bushings are good and nothing is loose, you can adjust the relative position of the shifter to the shift rod by loosening the clamp which holds the shifter to the rod, detaching them, rotating the rod slightly and reclamping them. This is a trial and error operation... easy but can be time consuming. Regards, Jon B Kanas Lockheed Martin Corporation Flight Systems Spacecraft Test Lab 303-977-6354 jon.b.kanas@lmco.com |
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