72 trans linkage - missing a part?? Help needed.

["Robin Giesbrecht" <robings@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You are in luck. I have my 72 up on blocks doing my front end.Should be done 
tomorrow although it is not finished as torsion bars and seals seem to be 
unobtainable. One bar is bent and the seals are rough. Anyway there is a 
bushing(plastic maybe) in the trans mount bracket that the horizontal rod 
rides in. There is still a little slop with the bushing installed.

Robin Giesbrecht


> From: Kenyon Wills <imperialist1960@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: IML <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: IML: 72 trans linkage - missing a part??  Help needed.
> Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 10:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
>
> I am re-assembling a 1972 that had a driveline swap.   My other fuselage 
> cars are not handy to look at for reference.
>
> There is a horizontal rod that transmits the trans shift commands.  It 
> pivots in two brackets.  One bracket is on the drivers side frame of the 
> car, the other is bolted to the transmission.  The one bolted to the 
> transmission has a hole that the horizontal dowel slides through and pivots 
> inside of.  The dowel has an arm on each end that the linkages from the 
> steering column and to the trans are connected to.
>
> When I put the horizontal dowel into the bracket, the dowel is 3/8" or so 
> in diameter.
> The hole that it is going into is about 3/4" or 1" in diameter, meaning 
> that there is lots of slop.  I see no wear marks in the grease on the 
> bracket to indicate that there was a grommet or other item that reduced the 
> inside diameter of the bracket (why not stamp the hole the right size to 
> begin with???).  The dowel appears worn where it would be rubbing on either 
> the bracket or some sort of sleeve.
>
> I am suspicious about my current setup and suspect that I am missing an 
> item.  Can someone check this?  On my car, if you grab the linkage dowel 
> you can wiggle it and it makes a banging racket as it floats around inside 
> the trans-mounted bracket, not unlike when the idler arm is worn and there 
> is slop in the drag link/steering linkage.
>
> I want to disclaim that I know that dowels are probably a wood-working 
> term, and that all parts described are in fact metal, so are probably rods, 
> but I used "dowel" because I felt like it, and I hope that was a good 
> enough description to get the job done.  I also wonder if D2 will write in 
> with the correct name of the linkage dowel rod thingey if he knows it 
> (-C'mon, I'm counting on you).  He gets my nomination for member of the 
> month if he can pull that one out of the hat.
>
>
> Kenyon Wills
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