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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 7:22 am    Post subject: shifting help. Reply with quote

Have a berg did not really like it. Got a stock shifter to see if I would like it better. installed it and I cant get it to push down for reverse and its not very smooth.


Its a 60 single so it has the shift rod guide not the bushing. It has the shift rod with the slit in it.

what am I doing wrong? could I have the wrong shifter? would else could it be?
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More than likely you got a shifter from a later bus. Is it bent? if it is then it is not for your bus. pre 63 the shifters are straight i believe. Well the are on mine. Ive had a 67 and it was bent, so is the 66 i have.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

should there have been a lockout plate on the berg? there was but I thougth one did not need to be there.
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

got it shifting smooth. Freind loaned me another stock shifter to see if it would work and it took care of the problem. Cool
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Widefiveguy wrote:
pre 63 the shifters are straight i believe.


For future reference, in late August of 59. the shifter was changed from straight to bent. Also, the position on the floor that the shifter pivots was moved farther forward.
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