Whats it called? Shift linkage Bushing Doohickey?

Me, again... Got a 1987 Chrysler Fifth Avenue... It's going to nag me to
death with all of the little shit, but I still love it!

It has a 318 V8 with a three speed automatic transmission with a columm
shift. Well, today the shift went limp! Crawled underneath to look at the
linkage and I saw that a plastic bushing/retaining clip had rotted into
oblivion and allowed the vertical portion of the linkage to seperate from
the horizontal rod that connects to the transmission. A trip to the
junkyard yielded clips in the same condition as mine. I went to the parts
store and tried to describe the part, but without really knowing what I'm
describing, it's hard to order the part. It's not just a usual retaining
clip from what I can see, but more of a bushing and clip all in one.

Anyone here have any idea what I'm talking about from my vague description?

A lousy photo is at http://fifthavenue.i8.com/shiftlink.JPG

Imagine yourself standing in the front of the car, facing the engine bay.
You're looking down into where the steering column comes through the
firewall, under the brake booster. Down below by the mini-cat and exhaust
pipe is an interconnect there the vertical portion of the linkage connects
to a horizontal portion. I have it wired together for now with some solid
copper electrical wire but really need to get that clip replaced.

Thanks,
-Steve

 

Try 3575333; Grommet, lever rod. If somebody can tell me how to send just
one page of a PDF file, I'll send you a graphic.

 

Ah. A trip to the dealer service department is in order. One advantage
they have is on-line exploded diagrams of the parts they carry and their
spatial relationship to other stuff. You'll be able to find out what it's
called that way. I should think they'd still be able to order parts for an
'87.

--Geoff

 

Jack;
You need the full boat edition of Acrobat to pull just one page from a
PDF file. Acrobat Reader will just let you view and print the entire file.

 

Thanks for emailing that exploded diagram. PERFECT! The part you mentioned
wasn't the one I needed (You were in the right area, though and did pretty
good from my poor description!) , but the diagram does show the grommet I
need.

Thanks!

-Steve

 

Two possibilities:
1) If you have Acrobat (not just Acrobat Reader), you can copy the
document over and open it in Acrobat. Then do Document|Delete Pages and
tell it to delete all but the page of interest. Save the single page
document, and then e-mail, it as an attachment. Delete the new single
page document when done unless you want to keep it.
2) If you only have Acrobat Reader (free to everyone), open the original
document, and set it to display one and only complete page on the screen
(the one you want to send). Then hit Alt+PrintScrn (which copies what's
displayed in the active window onto the clipboard). Open a virgin Word
document, and do Ctrl+V (i.e., paste the contents of the clipboard into
the Word document). Select the newly pasted object, and position it as
necessary and grab a corner and enlarge it to just about fill the page
in Word. Save the word document and e-mail it as an attachment.

(BTW - I'm not interested in receiving the pdf page - just telling you
how you could send just one page of a multiple page pdf to the OP.)

Bill Putney
(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with "x")

 

Figured it out earlier, Bill (with a little help). The OP has the file.
Thanks.

 

Or on a pc, go to the pdf page you need to send, do ALT-PRNT SCRN (which
copies the selected window) and paste into Word. Resize in Word by
grabbing a corner handle. E-mail just that single page Word doc as an
attachment.

Bill Putney
(to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with "x")

 

I had not heard the word "Doohickey" before?

Is that the same as "thing-a-majig"?

DAS

 

Why, yes! It's also a close cousin to a 'whatchamacallit', an identical
twin to the 'whoosie', and a suitable substitute for the ever-popular
'johnson rod'. Make no mistake, however, it's unacceptable in place of a
good bottle of 'panther piss' and will only suffice as a 'thingamabob' in a
pinch!

Welcome to America!

--Geoff

 

I am keen to learn this new technical terminology, so that I can add it to
'whojamaflip' et al...

BTW, thingamabob is likely to be understood and sometimes used on my side of
the pond.

DAS

 

And of course there is the ever-popular "dingus".