replacing the shifter extension

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bbuckl
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Your car is a: 1979 Spider 2000
Location: New Fairfield, CT

replacing the shifter extension

Post by bbuckl »

After a lengthy process, I'm at the point where I am actually putting things back together. When replacing the chrome extension, do I put the plastic/rubber contraption on the shifter and bang the chrome handle down on it or do I put all of that stuff into the chrome extension and bang it down on the shifter?

It came apart in a million scraps of plastic and molten rubber so I have no frame of reference...

thanks!

Brian
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vandor
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Your car is a: 1971 124 Spider
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Re: replacing the shifter extension

Post by vandor »

If everything is off, then you put all the parts on the lower shifter. However, the two uppermost bushings can get stuck in the upper shifter, so they am still be there.
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bbuckl
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Joined: Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:20 pm
Your car is a: 1979 Spider 2000
Location: New Fairfield, CT

Re: replacing the shifter extension

Post by bbuckl »

Thanks Csaba. I managed to get all of the old junk out of the extension. 30 years worth of goopy rubber...
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