quote:Originally posted by JTpantera: It sounds as if you have slop in the shifter shaft along the way;
quote:Originally posted by Dave2811: I think you are fighting slightly worn components in all points of movement in the ZF and linkage.
Well, I’m open to any and all suggestions thus my post and that's certainly a sensible premise. It's a pretty low mile car (22kmile now). I can say this, the u-joints in the linkage appear very sound. The ones at the rear are of course easy to verify and at least to the extent the translation of the shifter linkage to the u-joint visible when you remove the ashtray goes, that also appears sound and the most minute shifter movement is visible. Also, when I grab the u-joint under the ashtray and move the shifter, it sure feels true and free of slop. Not opposed to pulling shifter bucket though as it is relatively low time investment. After all these years though, I cant say the gate adds much value. If I don’t know where 1-5 are at by now I should hang it up.
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