On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:56 AM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
> The Vanagon shifting mechanism on a manual tranny is a puzzle to me. I
> have not been able to come ot an understanding of it from looking at
> Bentley and the Haynes Manual is not much good either.
>
> Can anyone describe exactly how the mechanism works? The part that is of
> interest is in the front of the vehicle where the shifter lever housing
> is located. I don't understand how the movement and positioning of the
> end of the shift rod works.

John.

This might sound far fetched, but if you had a video camera, you could
record the movement of the linkage at box while recording audio of you
announcing what gear you are shifting from/to. In fact, if one wanted
to, they could do a video of the front box and rear linkage at tranny,
showing each in a split screen (not sure of correct term) mode. Like
they do on that tv show "24".

"Bink, bink" sound is optional.  ;)

Neil.
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