Once I was driving, and when I tried to shift, nothing happened and the shifter
was basically flopping around in my hand. It turned out that the plastic ball
at the base of the shifter lever no longer existed: it had broken and the
pieces had
all fallen away. After installing a new ball it was as good a new and has been
ever since.
Probably something similar is happening to yours. It is quite easy to rebuild
the shifter, replacing all the plastic parts. The biggest part of the job is
removing the transmission cover to get at the thing.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 08:22 PM 8/24/2003 -0700, Joe Frakes wrote:
>I had an interesting issue with the shifter in my Spit when I went to drive it
>to work this morning. It will no longer go into reverse. When you press down
>on the lever to allow it to go into the reverse gate, it doesn't move down as
>far as it used to and will not allow you to get it into the gate for reverse.
>There is a bit of a rattling noise when you push it up and down, so I'm
>guessing something in the shifter has either broken or come loose. Anyone
>have an experience with this issue? Is it a replace the shifter issue or can
>it likely be repaired? I'll have to tear into it when I have another day
>off.
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