<VV> Re: Shift Linkage

[HallGrenn at aol.com]

John,  Chuck has everything spelled out in his reply.  Can you remove the nut 
and rubber shock bumper from the rod and reassenble the whole piece in order 
to reattach it loosely to the front bracket before final assembly?  If your 
front mounts are really bad the tranny could be too low, but the rod should have 
enough adjustment to still tie things up ok.  Plenty of cars with sagging 
front mounts shift ok.  The only purpose of the thing is to keep the shift tube 
aligned to the transmission as the engine/transaxle shifts on the engine mounts 
under acceleration, braking and cornering loads.  It should not be so tight 
that it loads anything up.  Remember the shift tube end is just brazed to a 
thin steel tube so it wasn't designed to be structural or take large loads--just 
tie the shift tube to the transmission for small movements.  Give me a call if 
you have to get it done this weekend--contact me by direct email if you need 
the number.

Bob Hall
Group Corvair
'64 Brier
'65 Corsa
2 '68 Monzas