by johber41 » 18 Sun Nov, 2012 12:10 am
Thanks for the response Cory. I did play with the shifter. I have a Hurst shifter and the mounting holes do give room to move it back and forth. None of the helps the problem though. I tried working with the coupler and actually machined two home-made couplers to get different lengths, and nothing helped. I am now using an after-market coupler. I spoke to a local Beetle guy and he tells me that it might not even be the 1st gear syncro and might just be the facing of the gear worn to a degree that the trans slips from gear. Either way, its probably an internal issue. On the bright side though, the Beetle guy told me that it will not deteriorate to a worse condition. He believes that someone in the past was probably grinding away with the shifter. I really thought that with the pan being cut down and all the internal cables and the shifter rod being altered to go along with the short-pan build, that maybe they cut something too short or left something too long. Its a learning experience!
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