I have a slightly-bent chromed shift lever in my `69, IIRC it did come from a pre`68 Type III. `68-up shiftrods do not have the slot in the front of the ball-socket for the indexing pin that sticks out of the front of the early "bent" levers (the exception being `68 AutoStick). The straight shift levers used on `68-up cars can spin 'round and 'round. If you removed the index pin from a "bent" shifter to allow it to be installed into the late shiftrod it would swing about crazily when you tried to shift. I used a cut-off wheel and some small files to create the slot in my shiftrod, and it works great. I'd recommend removing the shiftrod from the pan to do this, it's difficult to do in-place without scarring up the top of the tunnel.
--- asad ishaque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oki, > > I found a chrome shift rod at the scrapyard. The > scrapper had no idea what VW it came off but we have > stong suspicion over a type 3 Variant. I saw the > same shifter on thesamba a while back (missed the > link) and it was also advertised as coming from a > doubtful source. > Its chromed and has a slight bend at one place. Size > is about that of a post 68 lever. > > Question is can it be a bolt on addition to my > daily driver 68?? I can test fit it and see. Any > thing to look out for?? > > While on this subject.......the 59 rag project > has a late 60s engine and gear box. The tunnel rod > is also a later unit as the coupling under the rear > seat is of the newer style. The shift rod has been > swapped too to a post 68 type. I have sourced a pre > 63 and a post 63 shift lever. The older one has a > bigger dia thread. > > Question is...can I just swap the older levers > onto the newer setup?? Or quite simply can we just > bolt on a different model shift lever to any bug?? > > TIA > Asad > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant > messaging. You IM, we give. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join > _______________________________________________ > vintagvw site list > [email protected] > http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ _______________________________________________ vintagvw site list [email protected] http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
