[T3] Stick Shift Issues

[Jaz Jarzewiak]

I'll check there tomorrow afternoon after I get all my stuff out of my car and I to my new apartment. Impossible to check user the rear seat at the moment with everything I own in Scone.
Thanks!

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> On May 11, 2014, at 11:39 AM, 73 squareback Cincy <swaffordvw at cinci.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Doubt this will help you but i had that happen once where on my ghia i used to have there is a plate under the back seat where the shifter rod connects to the transmission. And a bungee cord got caught in it and i only had second and fourth. It could also be a bushing there or just loose all together.
> 
> Havent really messed with this on my type 3 in all the years i owned it...
> Chris537
> 73 Squareback
> 
>> On 5/10/2014 11:34 AM, Jaz Jarzewiak wrote:
>> Hey everyone.
>> My 67 Squareback has, for awhile, had issues going into first gear after
>> leaving the higher gears when I'm stopped at a light or trying to
>> downshift.  I noticed that second gear wouldn't synchronize quite awhile
>> ago.  I didn't think much of these things, I figured maybe the shift plate
>> was a little loose? I would have to take the stick shift, in neutral, all
>> the way to the right to be able to get into first at starting the car
>> moving again, or else it wouldn't go in.
>> 
>> But yesterday my problem got a lot worse.
>> 
>> I was going up a hill in Atlanta traffic when the stick shift just seemed
>> to loose all of its gear set.  I couldn't get it in first, it felt like the
>> shifter wouldn't even go up anywhere past neutral.  There felt like there
>> were two gears downwards or something, but I could only get it into what I
>> thought was first or second by going where second usually was.  I couldn't
>> find reverse when I needed to leave a parking lot and had to get two people
>> to help push me out of my spot with the clutch in.
>> 
>> Is this the shift plate issue, or something worse? Other than the
>> synchronization issues downshifting, I haven't had any issues with
>> transmission.
>> 
>> Thanks guys,
>> 
>> Jaz Jarzewiak
>> 1967 Squareback "Scone"
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