Where can I get this bushing?

[SGB]

I'm on a mission to aleviate sources of transmission woes
(naw- I'm really trying to avoid getting my transmission rebuilt)- I started having really difficult shifting. Primarily second, but third too. So I now realize that since changing transmission fluid 6 weeks ago I have developed major leak at the speedo drive (O-ring on order, Thanks Jason). I've adjusted and re-adjusted shifter with mixed results. I decide to look at the bushings I replaced a little less than a year ago, 'cause the shifter rod wiggles more than it should. I slid back the boot next to the firewall and found crumbled plastic-like matter and this little bushing type thing that went in the shift rod coupling. Maybe I'm blind or slow or sumthin', but I didn't see anything that fits this description for a side shift ('73). Lookit these pics. Do I have to get a new (or used) part- forward portion of the shift rod maybe?

[SGB]

This is one side. Is it the one PP sells as part of the "Super Bushing Kit"? I bought the others seperately, of course.

[SteveStromberg]

Here is the part # 91442422300 If you need a part # just send me a email.

[Bob Bischoff]

Check these out brass and at $29 they seem like a great price. I got some new stock ones from PAP in North GA last year for less than $10. If they still have the replacement parts you could order one day and get them the next day as close as they are to Huntsville.

Bob

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=17749&

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

Pelican also carries them. Ask for "shift coupler bushings"--you will need two of them.

Make sure you support the coupler and the end of the shift rod very securely, as it seems to be not too difficult to break the one or the other when pressing out the pin from the middle.

--DD

[SGB]

Thanks everyone. Which pin is pressed in (or out, then in, I guess)? How does one go about this operation? I thought I would be pressing the bushings in around the pin- buth side at once with a C-clamp maybe.... Am I missing something?

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

The bushings go in from the inside of the coupler. Which means the shift rod needs to be removed. Which means you have to press out the pin (or pound it out), slide the rod out, dig out the old buhings, and stuff the new bushings in. Then slide the rod back in, press/pound the pin back in again.

--DD

[Jared at Pelican Parts]

Here's how I remove the bushings...



Use a small socket to drive the pin out of the center as you tighten the vise. On the other side, have a deep socket to accept the pin. The trick is to have a socket that only touches the rubber bushing. Remove the old bushings, put the new ones in, and use the smaller socket to drive the pin back in...