Joe
Not unusual. Try just pulling back towards 2nd. you are "setting the
synchromesh".
On Friday, November 12, 2004, at 03:36  PM, Automatic digest processor
wrote:

>  Joe Lin <joeminglin@YAHOO.COM>
> Subject: Re: shift linkage concept question
>
> is this the same isssue that I am having?..............75% of the time
> I cant shift into 1st unless I go to second then 1st.  This is both
> from a stand still and while in motion.  This whole vanagon experience
> is new to me.  I picked up my 87 wolfsburg w/ 80k on the ticker a
> month ago.