My first and easiest diagnosis would be to grease the "pipe" linkage that goes
from the front to the transmission through rubber type grommets.   I did this 
and it helped my shifting considerably--it just felt better.  If this doesn't
work, I would go to Bentley and adjust the linkage as they describe.

David Ruppe <rupped@PSI.COM> wrote:
> hi-
> 
> just completed a 750 mile trip in the '87 westy (to Winterhawk bluegrass
> fest - lots of buses - anyone on the list?).  I let a friend drive some
> yesterday who was not familar with the car.  Now it is hard to get into 1st
> and almost impossible to get into 4th.  other gears work fine, but the
> shifter seems stiff, and the gears are in slightly different locations.
> any ideas what to look at first?  this better just be linkage.....
> 
> thanks...
> 
> david ruppe
> '87 westy ("festy")

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