Still having trouble with shifter side/side-need help!

sketchers356 · 07-21-2011, 05:52 PM

So I finally got the car on the road again tonight but I am still having a lot of trouble moving the shifter side to side (no trouble going forward and back). I took the shifter apart and lubed it and everything looked great. I topped up the trans with swepco 201. I have been spraying the rear trans linkage with pb blaster, wd40, and lithium grease for the past week. My shifter is still very stiff side to side!

Where do I go from here? The rear linkage looks quite rusty. Do i need to replace that?

Im also having a bad vibration at idle which I assume means I need new motor mounts. Im also having some judder letting the clutch out into first gear. Could that be the transmission mounts which are causing the trans to be out of alignment and causing the stiff shifting?

One thing that was peculiar to me was when I took the shifter linkage bar off of the pin of the shifter I found that it was very easy to move the shifter by itself, as well as the bar by itself. However, when I put them back together it was very stiff. Pointing to bad alignment?

Thanks for the help. I have been trying to search but have not found my answer yet.

Guest765 · 07-21-2011, 06:17 PM

lightly lube the shifter link pin on the shifter in the front. you say theyre both loose by themselves. alignment would cock the shifter at an angle, not bind it.

sketchers356 · 07-21-2011, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by fwayfarer

lightly lube the shifter link pin on the shifter in the front. you say theyre both loose by themselves. alignment would cock the shifter at an angle, not bind it.

Already lubed the pin. Seemed to be no wear either. Can try again I suppose.

massive · 02:28 AM

I wouldn't have thought lubing the link pin at the gear stick end will have any effect on side to side movement only backwards and forwards.

With regards to the linkage at the transmission end from what I remember when I changed the shifter linkage to a short shift kit it was possible to push/pull the post (which is the side to side movement you want to achieve, not twist as this is the forwards/backwards moevement) that the mechanism clamps to with your finger and thumb when the linkage is not attached to it.