Wow, that's great! Hey you explained it very well.

Wish I could say the same. My transmission is half way disassembled in my 
garage. Hope to separate the gear stacks over the weekend to get at the 
offending parts.

Steve

H2obxr@aol.COM Wrote:
| 
| Well, I finally solved about 90 percent of the problems I was 
| having getting
| from third to neutral and third to fourth gears on my '88 GL. 
|  Thought I'd
| seen some postings from folks with similar problems, this 
| might help.
| 

| Well, the "cup"
| that the ball sits in was about one-third ful of a compacted 
| grease/dirt
| mixture that had become solid enough to cause the ball to 
| raise slightly out
| of the cup, intsead of transferring the motion to the rest of 
| the linkage.

| BTW, sorry for the lack of technical references to the 
| linkage dohickey's; I
| still don't have my Bentley manual yet :)
| 
| Cliff
| 
| '88 Vanagon GL, shifting much better now, TYVM!