RE: little black "top hat" bushings

[Brian Honnold <bhonnold@pac-cap.com>]

So that's what the other top hats were for. (tranny)

Now I have to talk my four year old out of his cool Lego hats. Shit

BTW welcome back

Brian Honnold
'78 Rocco Ragtop

On Sunday, August 02, 1998 12:21 PM, Ken Buck [SMTP:phillyscca@enter.net] wrote:
> Those black bushings DO NOT go where the wieghted shifter rod with 
> the two little clips are, that is where the bigger white bushings go.
> 
> The little black bushings go it two places, the first set goes under 
> the shifter about half-way back the car, where the rod you hold on to 
> goes through to the rod that runs forward.  There is a rubber booty 
> over that connection with a solid plastic disk on the bottom.  Be 
> careful to put things back together the way they came apart.
> 
> The second set of bushings go at the back of the tranny where the two 
> shifter rods meet.  That little 90 degree pivot piece with the two 
> balls on it?  That piece unbolts to show the two pieces of the 
> bushing. 
> 
> I always grease these black bushings before I install them.
> 
> The soft rubber washers are meant to keep the grease in the shifter 
> rod ends that snap over the balls, and also to keep dirt out of those 
> connections.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Ken Buck
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