I hope that is all it is with yours.  I replaced my shift linkage bushings
and it did nothing, nada, nil, bubkus to stop the vibrations on mine...
Joachim
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Joachim and Belinda and one on the way
and our fuzzballs Lucky and Leander in Houston, TX,
..and Griffin and Hobi romping around Rainbow Bridge

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or
discontent.  To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon
is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was
peace.    Milan Kundera

>
>Subject: Re: [VANAGON] vanagon with ticco engine/vibrations
>   From: Bill Marshall <Willolyn99@AOL.COM>
>   Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:54:25 EST
>     To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>Sorry if this seems late, but I am way behind on my e-mail....
>
>Alistair mentioned a noise could be transmitted in the shift linkage.  Yep!
>At high rpm's my gearshift would buzz.  At first, I thought it was the
>plastic knob being cracked, so I replaced it with a finely crafted solid
>walnut replacement knob (from my own shop).  Still got the buzz, so that
>wasn't it.  There is a lot of vibration coming through.  I believe that the
>buzz is from worn-out shifter parts rattling somewhere, and maybe a new
>shift-kit is in my future.  But anyway, there is definitely a component of
>vibration/noise from the shift linkage.
>
>(Hmmm.....hand-made walnut shift knobs w/VW inlay??.....cottage
>industry??.....)
>
>Bill Marshall
>85 GL Tiico "Pandora's Box"
>Aurora, IL