I GUESS the protrusion is simply attached to the bar.
I gave it a knock directly onto the little lobe that = is pushing the ball in the reverse switch. The protrusion did not come off = the bar, but the lobe was flat after 3 or 4 hits, so it couldn´t push the = switch. The lobe had moved 90 degrees to the left. It did not turn on the bar = but the lobe had to come out there because I flatened it in its original = position (since metal does not disappear when hammering on it).
And the same works vice versa: make it flat and it = will come out somewhere else.
 
Man, I hate writing technical descriptions in = english, forgive me...
 
And: The shifter bar only fits in one = position.
 
Raimund
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Von: Michael Townsend <townsend@RTP.ERICSSON.SE>=
An: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM&g= t;
Datum: Dienstag, 2. Februar 1999 14:45
Betreff: Re: Reverse Lights

Uhhh,
 
I thought the cam-shaped protrusion was PART of = the shifter bar -- are you implying that it is simply attached to the = shifter bar?  When I tried to turn it with pliers, the other side of = the bar (where the shifter hooks to it) moved.   Am I supposed to = somehow disconnect the shifter linkage first, and then try to turn it?  = Wouldn't that cause my 2 & 4 to change places with 1&3 = ?  :-)
 
Michael