I did both. everything in this car is new... its amazing the stuff you'll do while waiting for a transmission...
-----Original Message----- From: John Caldwell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 27, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: RE: Filling front motor mount/heim jointing >On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Boyd Drew wrote: > >> I bought a solid linkage kit from Komposit www.komposit.net >> <http://www.komposit.net> . its pretty expensive and in retrospect I thonk >> I could have built it myself cheaper but I LOVE IT! >> > >Those kits eliminate the parts of the stock system that work fine, and >don't do anything about the parts that cause almost all of the slop- the >"golf ball" and the main shaft bushing. Unfortunately there's not much >that can be done there, so once they wear out you're still stuck with a >sloppy shifter with a nice set of $300 heim joints. The stock "ball and >socket" connectors can have marginally more slop in them, but it's not >huge. > >If your shifter is that bad try replacing all the bushings first and see >how you like it... only then would I recommend going for the komposit kit. > > >_____________ >List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com >To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message >See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com >Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
