Nope, not a linkage issue. You got the cracked 3-4 slider hub.

Dennis

>From: wognacious <wognacious@EWNET.NET>
>Reply-To: wognacious <wognacious@EWNET.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Shifting issue
>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:23:44 -0700
>
>I've got a little, I hope, problem with my tranny. I can shift through all
>the gears forward and back except for 4th. Once I go from 3rd to 4th it
>doesn't want to come out of gear. Got plenty of fluid in the reservoir and
>shift ability through all the other gears is no problem. I can only think
>that this is a linkage issue and if so is there any advice out there on
>what to do to fix it.
>TIA,
>Paul Rogers
>85 WWW
>