Pretty easy fix.  There are several plastic parts attached to the shift
lever, some of which you broke.  They tend to get brittle with age.

About $30 in parts and an hour or two (shadetree) labor.

Things won't get worse, but it is a fix worth doing if you shift much.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Wilson" <pwilson@ORO.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:40 AM
Subject: Linkage

> Hi,
>
> As I was pushing down on the stick shift on my '84 Camper to get into
> reverse the spring mechanism seemed to let go.  Now the stick shift
> moves freely far to the left and I have to hunt about a bit to tell
> Reverse from 1st from 3rd gears.  It's taken a bit of getting used to
> but it's not much of a problem now.
>
> Am I about to have no linkage at all?  Is this the beginning of a bigger
> problem?  How much trouble would it be to fix?
>
> Thanks for suggestions.
>
> Peter Wilson
> peter@peterwilsonworld.com