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Posted by: skaufmann Jun 24 2011, 12:22 PM

It's probably common knowledge to everyone except me. Searching didn't produce anything.

So, what's the purpose? To tell the driver they can shift from 1st to 3rd?

Posted by: kg6dxn Jun 24 2011, 12:33 PM

Spring loaded stop at that location.

Posted by: skaufmann Jun 24 2011, 12:39 PM

Makes sense.

The funny thing is there's no way I would have figured that out with the condition of my shifting. The spring loaded plate doesn't engage till half-way to 4th/5th. I found out why (no the car hasn't been driven in 8 years... yet)

Posted by: matteyp Jun 24 2011, 12:45 PM

is that the shifter console or at the back of the trans? If thats in the shifter console That peice should not be there

Posted by: skaufmann Jun 24 2011, 12:52 PM

It's the ball cup bushing that the shifter sits in (tail shifter). It's just unrecognizably trashed.

Posted by: injunmort Jun 24 2011, 12:57 PM

replaced that bushing last night, hope to have 1st and reverse now.

Posted by: Tom_T Jun 24 2011, 03:49 PM

AKA "Reverse Lock" - but in this case it also "locks out" 1st. Put in there to guard against accidental downshifts into 1st or R, esp. when racing - form which this 901 shift pattern was derived (from Porsche race cars' transaxles). It means you have to push a bit harder to get into that gate..

Posted by: SLITS Jun 24 2011, 05:48 PM

Tailshift has a cup up front too; sideshifter does not.

Posted by: matteyp Jun 24 2011, 08:38 PM

Ohh I was wondering, that makes sense since mine doesn't have that cup up front.