MECHANIC JOE
DEALS WITH OWNERS’
PROBLEMS
HARD SHIFTING
A 1930 Packard’s shifting mechanism seems to lock when shifting frem low to second. Sometimes the operator has to jiggle it to make the shift. This condition is likely to bo caused by the fact that the shift levers at the bottom of the steering column do not line up in the neutral position. It is suggested that the levers be brought together and a pin inserted through, the aligning holes to hold them in the correct position. Then disconnect the shiftinglevers from the rods at the transmission. Then, adjust the short rod between the the operating levers, which are just ahead of (lie transmission, and the levers at the bottom of the steering column. This ad-
jus Uncut should be made so that, with the operating levers in neutral at the bottom of the steering column and the levers on the transmission also in neutral, the rods are the right length to permit the clevis pins to enter the yokes.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 14048, 1 May 1946, Page 5
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