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Scat shifter question?

FM Former Member
I have been driving my newly finished speedster around some and it does not seem to shift well at all. first and second gear are ok but when you go into third gear it never wants to go. You end up slowing up so much by the time you get it in third gear that you almost need to be second again. Now when you go from third to fourth it shifts OK but that second to third is just way to hard. Could this be something in the shifter that i have. Its a Scat drag shifter. I need to get this thing shifting easy enough for my wife to drive being it is her car.

Mike
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FM Former Member
I have been driving my newly finished speedster around some and it does not seem to shift well at all. first and second gear are ok but when you go into third gear it never wants to go. You end up slowing up so much by the time you get it in third gear that you almost need to be second again. Now when you go from third to fourth it shifts OK but that second to third is just way to hard. Could this be something in the shifter that i have. Its a Scat drag shifter. I need to get this thing shifting easy enough for my wife to drive being it is her car.

Mike
FM Former Member
As I recall, you have a new shift rod bushing, the one up front near the shifter. You have new shift couplers bushings back in the rear where the inspection plate is, right under the package tray cushion. I'm baffled??? I'd try a nice stock shifter from someone else's car that you know is true. See if installing it works. Start by tightening it down after both the tranny & the shifter are in first. I've heard people doing it with them both in reverse.

(Message Edited 10/14/2002 12:46:19 AM)
FM Former Member
I have purchased two el cheapo Hurst-style shifters off ebay. Like new condition. One I couldn't get to work at all, the other is fair at best. I had two friends who have been messing wiht Vw's forever try to adjust them but they couldn't either. Moral of the story, if it is a cheap Taiwanese knockoff it may never work properly, in which case you would be better off putting a stock Vw shifter back on or else purchasing a more expensive brand-name shifter.
FM Former Member
The "hockey stick" (trans selector shaft) may be sloppy in the case due to wear, shift forks may not be aligned/spaced properly in the trans, etc. Try shifting into 3rd, then loosen the shift coupling and make sure the shift rod from the shift lever isn't binding (etc.), then retighten the coupling. After doing that, if 3rd-4th works fine and 1st-2nd and/or reverse is a problem check for wear in the shifter parts and the hockey stick.
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