Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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Ghost
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Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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I have a 91 and I have read that in 92 they changed the shifter design.

Anyway, if you are running the stock shifter, make sure your shift rod is securely seated on its rubber bushing. I had a bunch of shifter slop when I bought my car and attributed it all to the bushings lower down. Well today when grabbing 4th the top of the shift rod came entirely off the rest of the shifter, given how tight it fits it probably had been working its way off for a while. After I pounded it back on I noticed it was much crisper in the forward-backward direction.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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Good feedback! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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I had so much trouble putting my aftermarket shifter in the bushing, I put a board on top of the knob and sat on the board, lol.
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Josh Colombo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:23 am Wait....I'm confused now.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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Good thing you had the board!
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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You guys so funny :)
1992 Legacy SS 5mt, build in progress
Josh Colombo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:23 am Wait....I'm confused now.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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It could have been worse. I was laughing so hard after this line...
mike-tracy wrote:I had so much trouble putting my aftermarket shifter in the bushing
It took me a minute to compose myself before reading the rest of the sentence.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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Hey that never happens! I swear! ;)
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Josh Colombo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 14, 2002 10:23 am Wait....I'm confused now.
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Re: Reminder 91- Check that your shifter is seated.

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buddy of mine responded to a 911 call for a chick stuck on a shifter, no laughing matter lol
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