How does the Trunion Bearing look? It's down by the left header on the 'frame' and is supposed to keep play out of the Shift Linkage. You can see it from the driver's rear wheel well, see it even better if you take the wheel off.
A guy I was gonna buy a Pantera from was telling me he was gonna fix this same problem with a Trunion Bearing. The original is a rubber bushing, I'm gonna replace mine later, before problems (I hope) with a Hall Pantera (G8-#30, $74.00) or maybe they can be rebuilt, but I want the Polyurethane. Hope it's something minor like this...
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