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Humor me as I play a Porsche assembly engineer.
We've got a shift lever that's supposed to fit into a shift lever mechanism. If we weld the individual pieces together BEFORE it's assembled, there's no guarantee (even with jigs) the welded tab on the lever will fully align with the 5th and Rev. tabs on the carrier plate. How do we achieve perfection?
After a few German ales (Grande, dark of course), light bulb is ON. The assembly line will receive the shift housings, fully assembled but without the shift lever. Hans and his team have decided (pre-Japanese study group) to dip the end of each shift lever into a time-sensitive vat of special epoxy (brewed in Sindelfingen) and install the lever into each passing shift assembly, making sure the lever is in the 5th or Rev. gear position. This ensures the tabs are thus in complete and full heel-clicking alignment.
After the requisite curing period, Klaus and his QC team, along with special tool #911.001.456.00 (aka 1.67Kg GVH or Großer Verdammter* Hammer) perform final adjustments. Ouila! or Gemacht! as we might pretend to say in German.
It's good for about 25 years, give or take 10.
Sherwood
* This word is as close as I could get from a free Internet translation service. For $5, they provide the real word in a plain brown wrapper.
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