[DML] Re: Gearbox lift

["David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your're right, it should not take 2 hands to get the knob up over the
shifter gate. Take the knob off and try some lubrication on the
shafts. If that doesn't help you will have to disassemble, clean,
lubricate, and reassemble the shifter mechanism. Not terribly
difficult. It could also be something is bent, you may just have to
straighten it out. Someone in the past could have forced (and bent)
the mechanism not knowing to *lift* the knob over the reverse gate. I
recently had to replace a pin for an owner. A P.O. broke the pin
trying to force the shifter past the reverse gate. 
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Chris Hawes" <chris@...> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> 
> I took my car out over the weekend, first time in around 2 weeks and
noticed
> that lifting the gearlever up so I can engage reverse was really
stiff. It
> took both hand to lift it up, moving over to reverse was fine
though.  All
> the other gears are as per normal with their operation.
> 
> 
> I moved it up and down a few times to see if it would free-up a little
> better but didn't seem to improve too much.
> 
> 
> Does something need lubrication?  
> 
>  
> Thanks 
> 
>  
> Chris H.
> 
> Vin 5255 Oct 1981
> 
> 
> --
>









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