Whats it called? Shift linkage Bushing Doohickey?

Me, again... Got a 1987 Chrysler Fifth Avenue... It's going to nag me to death with all of the little shit, but I still love it!

It has a 318 V8 with a three speed automatic transmission with a columm shift. Well, today the shift went limp! Crawled underneath to look at the linkage and I saw that a plastic bushing/retaining clip had rotted into oblivion and allowed the vertical portion of the linkage to seperate from the horizontal rod that connects to the transmission. A trip to the junkyard yielded clips in the same condition as mine. I went to the parts store and tried to describe the part, but without really knowing what I'm describing, it's hard to order the part. It's not just a usual retaining clip from what I can see, but more of a bushing and clip all in one.

Anyone here have any idea what I'm talking about from my vague description?

A lousy photo is at

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Imagine yourself standing in the front of the car, facing the engine bay. You're looking down into where the steering column comes through the firewall, under the brake booster. Down below by the mini-cat and exhaust pipe is an interconnect there the vertical portion of the linkage connects to a horizontal portion. I have it wired together for now with some solid copper electrical wire but really need to get that clip replaced.

Thanks,

-Steve

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Steve Reinis
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Try 3575333; Grommet, lever rod. If somebody can tell me how to send just one page of a PDF file, I'll send you a graphic.

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Jack Idler

Ah. A trip to the dealer service department is in order. One advantage they have is on-line exploded diagrams of the parts they carry and their spatial relationship to other stuff. You'll be able to find out what it's called that way. I should think they'd still be able to order parts for an '87.

--Geoff

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Geoff

Jack; You need the full boat edition of Acrobat to pull just one page from a PDF file. Acrobat Reader will just let you view and print the entire file.

Jack Idler wrote:

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Mike Behnke

Thanks for emailing that exploded diagram. PERFECT! The part you mentioned wasn't the one I needed (You were in the right area, though and did pretty good from my poor description!) , but the diagram does show the grommet I need.

Thanks!

-Steve

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Steve Reinis

Two possibilities:

1) If you have Acrobat (not just Acrobat Reader), you can copy the document over and open it in Acrobat. Then do Document|Delete Pages and tell it to delete all but the page of interest. Save the single page document, and then e-mail, it as an attachment. Delete the new single page document when done unless you want to keep it. 2) If you only have Acrobat Reader (free to everyone), open the original document, and set it to display one and only complete page on the screen (the one you want to send). Then hit Alt+PrintScrn (which copies what's displayed in the active window onto the clipboard). Open a virgin Word document, and do Ctrl+V (i.e., paste the contents of the clipboard into the Word document). Select the newly pasted object, and position it as necessary and grab a corner and enlarge it to just about fill the page in Word. Save the word document and e-mail it as an attachment.

(BTW - I'm not interested in receiving the pdf page - just telling you how you could send just one page of a multiple page pdf to the OP.)

Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")

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Bill Putney

Figured it out earlier, Bill (with a little help). The OP has the file. Thanks.

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Jack Idler

Or on a pc, go to the pdf page you need to send, do ALT-PRNT SCRN (which copies the selected window) and paste into Word. Resize in Word by grabbing a corner handle. E-mail just that single page Word doc as an attachment.

Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")

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Bill Putney

I had not heard the word "Doohickey" before?

Is that the same as "thing-a-majig"?

DAS

Reply to
Dori A Schmetterling

Why, yes! It's also a close cousin to a 'whatchamacallit', an identical twin to the 'whoosie', and a suitable substitute for the ever-popular 'johnson rod'. Make no mistake, however, it's unacceptable in place of a good bottle of 'panther piss' and will only suffice as a 'thingamabob' in a pinch!

Welcome to America!

--Geoff

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Geoff

I am keen to learn this new technical terminology, so that I can add it to 'whojamaflip' et al...

BTW, thingamabob is likely to be understood and sometimes used on my side of the pond.

DAS

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Dori A Schmetterling

And of course there is the ever-popular "dingus".

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Daniel J. Stern

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