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RE: Gearshift vibration

To: Gary Fluke <res0s0t7@verizon.net>
Subject: RE: Gearshift vibration
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:33:47 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Gary Fluke wrote:

> Thanks a lot to Mike, Dick, Doug and Bob for commenting regarding my car's
> shift lever rattle.  I am somewhat relieved as I was suspecting the worst,
> and now it may be just a case of replacing a spring, but it could be, more
> seriously, the replacement of a bad tophat bushing as part of a transmission
> overhaul.  I do understand, however, that even the replacing of the spring
> will entail quite a bit of work.

Ya - $150 in labor to replace a $1.50 part.

On the plus side - you to practice skills needed to yank the tranny!

:-)
 
> Gary
> '73

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