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Re: Shifter Adjustment, of course! Posted by Pyrrhic [Email] (#1124) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Pyrrhic) on Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:17:56 In Reply to: Shifter Adjustment, of course!, Pyrrhic [Profile/Gallery] , Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:06:44 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
As a follow up, today I took the car down to Saab Kellerman, the former Saab dealer in Erlangen and had their master mechanic look at the car. He said all my shift bushings are good, my engine mounts are good, my shift coupling is good. He says that the problem is internal to the transmission, that I have some internal play on the transmission; the remedy would be internal repair or a new (to the car) transmission, but he advised against either, said to just drive it and take it easy on first and second gears. His English wasn't perfect and my German is Scheisse, so I couldn't get many technical terms from him.
On the reverse and fifth, I put the car in neutral and pulled the gear shift lever off, and attempted to adjust the pin. The pin was already right at 22 mm, so adjustment is just fine. Here is the catch... the reverse shift lock-out ridge (for lack of a more acurate term) on the bottom left of the gearshift well (below the shifter rod), where the pin would strike to prevent shifting into reverse, is worn into a half moon shape. I haven't attempted lengthening the pin beyond 22 mm , but perhaps that will make it work as intended. That ridge seems to be made of some harder plastic, phenolic, HDPE, etc. Not metallic. Is it replaceable? The ridge is pictured below, the white piece inside the shift well, on the left side in white.
I know it all looks pretty dirty in there, one more project: remove it, clean it, reinstall it.
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