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Originally Posted by OldSpool87
So I took my ‘82 SC out for its first ride in a while (3-4 months of winter sittiting). Pulled fuel pump relay and ignition coil lead, cranked with started to build pressure...reattached it all and voila! She fired right up.
I got out on the parkway and went through the gears after a few miles of driving. To my disappointment, I got the 5-4 shift kiss of reverse. I spent a long time last year adjusting 5-4 to get rid of grind. I drove around with 13mm wrenches leaning over fixed back seats to get it right and finally did.
The only thing I did different this time around was invite my wife to ride along. She’s about 100lbs and way out of my league.
Could the extra ballast have caused the drive train to behave differently? I’ve read many posts of engine/transmission mounts getting old and causing ill shifting effects and wonder if this would be a similar situation.
The box is basically brand new with maybe 500 miles on it. WEVO shifter with new bushings and PSJ.
My adjustment of the coupler last year took me to the limit of happy compromise in shifting all gears. That’s to say before I got it right I went a little too far (lengthening shift linkage) and made 2nd gear pretty difficult. Adjusted slightly shorter and got it. No 5-4 reverse kiss.
So before I go back down the road of reaching shift linkage adjustment Zen, I wanted to rule out obvious factors including my bride.
Any thoughts are appreciated.
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Did you also update the clamp? They do go bad, the result is gradual loss of the settings.
I used a Wevo version on mine
