Two words...synthetic grease.  I greased by linkage a few years ago with regular grease.  Over time, the shifting got stiffer and stiffer.  Regular grease turns into a paste in cold temperatures.  The other night, I dropped the linkage, cleaned everything in a parts cleaner, and greased with synthetic grease.  Smooth...

Synthetic grease is all I use now everywhere.  Its simply far superior than regular grease.

Z

Wesley Alden Pegden <wes@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU> wrote:
Actually, when I got a car wash last weekend (with an undercarriage
wash), I got the biggest change in my shifting smoothness in such a short
period of time. (!) The linkages must have been all gunked up.

-wes
'84 vanagon

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, VWNut Hawk wrote:

> I switched to MT90 in the rebuilt manual transmission from AATransaxle
> this weekend.
> Wow the shifting it tons smoother.
>

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