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9xx · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Jarvenpaa, Finland

944 '84 daily driver: Clutch is OK, gearbox seems to be just fine but I'm having difficulties to move the lever sideways. It requires a firm tap/push to the lever in order to move it across the H-pattern. So the gears go in and out normally but the there is like some sort of ridge with the sideway movement that requires more force.

Is it the linkage on top of the gearbox?
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Nobbi · Joined: 24 Aug 2006 Posts: 1398 Location: Germany

Had the same issue with my barn-find 1982 Babe.....turned out to be a dead kind-of-a-bird stickin between the gear shaft.

Car was parked for more then a decade...

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9xx · Joined: 18 Jun 2006 Posts: 627 Location: Jarvenpaa, Finland

A bird? Well theoretically a gearbox could be carried by an african swallow but not by a european swallow... What?

Guess I just try to clean the linkage then. Thanks Nobbi.
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Mikko

All gone: 931 '82 Alpine White, original option "220" G31 with LSD + 3 x 944

Paul · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:45 pm Post subject:

Common issue caused by corrosion on the tranny's exterior shift linkage. Good time to buy and install a short shifter. Something like this one:

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