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Originally Posted by Wiskey
Hello all!
I'm having a situation here. I was on a work trip and one of the bushings for my Manual Transmission linkage broke and fell out. This has made my shifter very sloppy, although it actually does still work (until I loose the other one).
It's a little plastic part, probably costs $0.30 but I can't find it anywhere.
Have you guys run into this? What did you do to replace it? I don't want to drive it too much like this because I'm sure it will wear the aluminum shifter linkage eventually.
Bonus points if anyone out there has a diagram of this thing.
Thank you!
Whiskey
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I went to a local chevy custom shop in Tampa, FL area and the guy sent off to his machinist. They made me a couple aluminum bushing replacements and I'll be testing them out within the next month (need to find the day/time to reinstall shifter).
The cool thing is he reused the metal rings from inside the factory bushings, so the pin slides into it perfectly and still rides on that same material. The aluminum just replaces the black rubber/plastic so that it won't degrade. He thought about brass but was worried the hardness might warp the rod holes over time
If this works out, I told him there might be others out here with the same problem we can get a count of need and he can make a batch for sale. He didn't tell me a price yet but we agreed wasn't going over $200 before starting which I thought was fair considering disassembling the entire shifter assembly is 5 hours of labor I'll never have to do again