Gear Linkages

[Salvatore Guzzo <yu129742@yorku.ca>]

Here's my story...

I just got my car back from the bodyshop and lemme say that it looks
"SWEET"!  I love it although there exists some minor imperfections.

At any rate, I drove up to my friends cottage and just before leaving my
mom says to me "is your car gonna make it up there?"  I responded with a
"of course, it's a VW."  Any how, I get to the cottage in pitch blackness
and park it in the driveway.  About 10 minutes later, we decide to go and
buy some pizza.  Well, I get in and try to put it in gear but my lever
decides to fall downwards.  Thus, I was not able to put the car into gear.
Upset and I distraught I decide to drink some beer and worry about it the
next day.


The next day I looked at it and forced the lever ball to stay in place .
It continued to fall out, but with some nifty hand work I was able to drive
it back home.  At home,  I decided to replace the entire gear shift lever,
ball etc. from my parts car.  Unfortunately, this cured nothing since it
still fell out of the ball.  

Here's the problem:  What should I be looking for?  Do I need to buy a new
ball or is it because I haven't placed it in the correct spot.  Any hints
and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards and thanks,


Sal

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