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Posted by: shaggy Jan 28 2007, 11:16 PM

how do i change the shift bushings in/on the shift rod from my 72?

i have the back half of the rod removed and do not see any of the bushings.

how do i remove the front half?

and how do i change the balls and the ball socket on the bottom of the shifter?

-jim

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Jan 28 2007, 11:48 PM

On the end of the trans by the tail shift rod is a bracket that bolts on, your shift rod passes thru it right at the rear of the car, one goes there.



I don't think I did to replace it, I think I just worked it around that 90 degree
pivot off and on.



The nylon socket just pops off of the ball at the end of the shifter. I removed the ball on the shifter to put on a quick shift kit, I used mapp gas to heat it up and
it tapped off. You will epoxy the new one on.

Posted by: Scott-thundercat Jan 28 2007, 11:52 PM

so that's why my shifter has slop- it has no bushing there at all!!!

Posted by: shaggy Jan 28 2007, 11:58 PM

epoxy like jb weld or what?

so you used MAPP to heat the plastic balls? then tapped them off?

thanks for the help
-jim

Posted by: So.Cal.914 Jan 29 2007, 01:39 AM

Plastic balls? I have balls of steel...well thats what they say.

I thought you were taking about the ball at the bottom of the shifter, that is steel.

The cup that fits over it and slips into another cup at the beginning of the shifter

rod is plastic.

Any industrial epoxy should work, JB? should work.