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[1839cc]

Hello.

I'm in the middle of a shifter disassembly on my dad's BK. I joined to find information about that, and I did in fact find it. All four bushings on the shift rod and boss are missing, and recently the return spring also disappeared. I wasn't able to finish because it started raining a lot.

Still, that and a rear toe issue is all that's wrong with it at 281k miles. :smile:

[chuckthefuk]

Four bushings? The front bushings are 2 halves and the rear is a 1 piece design that has two bolts securing it to the transmission tunnel.

And that return spring is such a common item to fail... I bet 60% of SLi has a wobbly shifter.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/

Anyways welcome to SLi. Keep your dads BK running strong for years to come!

-Chuck

[1839cc]

Yeah it looks like four. At the front of the shift rod, there is a cross piece where it joins the shifter boss. It looks like I need a pair of bushings on each axis. Or did I misunderstand what I was looking at? I'm not doing anything with the stay rod yet. Those large bushings look okay for now.

Thanks for the welcome.

[mike-tracy]

Mazda fan?

[1839cc]

:grin:

Made a thread (http://www.sl-i.net/FORUM/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=25035) for it.

[1839cc]

Here is what I'm dealing with.

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/06/7375211372_d164c5ec8f_b-1.jpg

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/06/7375211388_7110a53928_b-1.jpg

Looks like I need four bushinigs, maybe two sleeves, and a return spring, yes?

[1839cc]

Well I got it done with good results. Shifts like new!

[chuckthefuk]

Sounds great