Hi all,
It's been too many years since I owned a baywindow bus, and I am currently fixing one up for someone.
The shifter has a LOT of play in it, and it feels weird. Sloppy. Hard to find gears accurately. You know.
I replaced the nosecone shifter rod coupler but it still feels loose. I know to replace a shifter bushing in a beetle shift rod, inside the tunnel. But is there one in a bus? While crawling under there briefly, I couldn't find one.
There was however one spot that had lots of free play: the ehd where the shifter hooks up to, has a horizontal hole in it which accepts a guide pin of some sort. This pin is VERY loose in the hole, allowing generous amounts of free play. Just looking at it and wiggling things up there, I'd say it needs to be nice and tight, and well lubricated. I wonder if originally there was a plastic bushing in there that deteriorated or wore out, and that's what's causing the looseness?
Am I correct in assuming there is no beetle-like shift rod bushing in a late bus,m but instead this guide pin is what's doing the job? It would make sense.
Jan