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At 11:15 PM -0600 7/27/01, Jim Adney wrote: > >OTOH, it is possible that the weld between the outside lever and >the shaft has broken. This would probably be the easiest thing to >fix, as long as you can figure out what position to get it welded >back on. Scorekeeper: 5 points to Jim. Yes, it turns out that the outside lever is rotating on the shaft. Argh. The flats on the internal lever look great -- brand new. So, you just pop out the cylindrical shaft with the outer lever right? No sweat, eh? Well... no. It hits smack! into the trailing arm, still needing about 3/4" of travel to get free. It ain't comin' out without dropping the tranny. It wouldn't have to drop much, actually -- I could see disconnecting the drivetrain as a unit, and lowering it primarily at the front end, just to get this part out. Sigh. Does anybody have a spare, good lever assembly they'd like to sell so that I could just swap? If you've got one mounted in a junk tranny, note that you have to remove both a 14mm lock nut on the inside end of the shaft, as well as a 10mm set screw inside the tranny that kind of locks the shaft so that it can't slide in and out of the tranny housing. We actually scrubbed our trip to gold country days ago, after we did a "reality check" for the climate there, and for the area between here and there -- at the beginning of the week, the forecast for this weekend was to be mid-100s for the central valley and low 100s for gold country. Sounds like a fall or spring destination. (In this part of the world, you can travel just a few miles and get a distinctly different *climate* due to the bay, winds, and the hills; it's been in the sixties here by the bay, and a bit chilly lately -- easy to forget it's truly summer on the other side of the hills.) I think instead we'll head down to Jack London Square in Oakland and catch the ferry to Angel Island and spend the day there on Sunday. :) -Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/