Re: Shift bushings - leftovers?

[thescirocco@juno.com]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:52:35 -0500 "Aaron Ness" <aaron@makuta.com> writes:
> Last night I replaced my shift bushings and relay lever ball.  It had 
> flats
> on both sides.  After I finished, my throw was a little shorter 
> (courtesy of
> the new ball), but I still have lots of play in the shifter when 
> it's in
> gear.  This is side-to-side, as well as fore-and-aft.  Shawn, you 
> just
> recommended to another lister replacing the links with the plastic 
> ball
> sockets, but in my case, they seem solid.  How do I tighten this up,
> considering I have new bushings?
> 
> Also, I have two leftover parts from the kit.  They are the two hard 
> plastic
> bushings that go into the link bolted to the bracket on the driver's 
> side of
> the differential housing.  I replaced those, but I have two more.  I 
> had
> this with the last one I did too.  Do they go somewhere?

They go on the bottom of the shifter, in the clevis bolt that holds the
shifter to the shift rod.

You pop the cover plate off underneath the car to get to them.

They'll help the side to side movement, if it is still bad, you'll need a
new shift plate.

I also installed the TSR kit in my GTI and it's a big improvement.

HTH,

Peter
'79 Scirocco 16V project car
'83 GTI "Caged Rabbit" 
'84 Scirocco, RD/FF
'80, '88 Scirocco rollers

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