Moving Gear Stick

71-BEETLE-SEDAN · 2009-10-25T05:20:06+00:00

What does it mean if my gearstick moves back and forth while in gear when i accelerate and then back off. Like if i give it too it it will pull backwards and then when i ease off it moves forwards again. Help is appreciated

71-BEETLE-SEDAN AKA Josh

1,058 posts · joined Mar 2009 · 7 Nov 2009, 11:23 am

#745827

OKay, so what should i be cable tying?

Dero Officially Full-On Dubber

227 posts · joined May 2005 · 11 Nov 2009, 11:54 am

#746650

should this not be in tech?...

iv just noticed lately a load of tech stuff in general chit chat...

not fussed either way really.

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 15 Nov 2009, 10:35 am

#747401

front engine mounts should be in OK condition as they don't really move about etc...
I suppose it depends on the milage of the car..

My Auto ones are perfect and i have original spares too... lol

I thought the eurethane red ones would be OK...
South American ones probably aren't much good either..
many of the rubber parts from down there are crap..
even VW do brazil or mexico...

Some one should be making them in the USA..
check CIP1 etc...
or check Wolfsburg automotive in Victoria..
they are having a lot of rubber parts made in Australia..
expensive... but worth it in this case...
same as gearbox/engine mounts....

You don't really want to be replacing them all the time...

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---

71-BEETLE-SEDAN AKA Josh

1,058 posts · joined Mar 2009 · 15 Nov 2009, 12:13 pm

#747417

I was under there the other day and took this pic, now the rubber bit in the middle is soft and rubbery, not dry and nnot hard, i couldnt see any areas of stress either, here is a pic,

vlad01 Compulsive Aussie Vee Dubber

4,270 posts · joined Jun 2010 · 9 Jun 2010, 6:04 pm

#783832

any one can comment on the rhino trans mounts? the yellow ones.

71 notchback,
Past owner of, 70 NB, 73 SB and 72 FB TLE

Peter Leonard Moderator Volatile

1,456 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 16 Oct 2013, 8:56 pm

#972904

Yellow rhino mounts LOOK good, but I have yet to destruction test mine. will let you know how they go. Unfortunately I have the red urethane mount at the front, so nfi how that's going to hold up.

let sleeping dubs lie

Boozo Back in the bug

359 posts · joined Sep 2007 · 16 Mar 2014, 10:26 am

#986091

Bizarre wrote:
That is my late style

That is the "new" mount and it is rubbish

I like the look of this, My box actually snapped across the 2 bolts on the nose cone years ago. So i made a horseshoe like that, but then solid mounted it to the original location......need to make it more quiet for my old age and sanity :P

'59 or Kombi?....feeling confused

'59 bug
'68 bug
'82 import T3 BUS. aircooled

68AutoBug Beetle Restorer - Experience over 138\% - YIKES --

11,654 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 18 Aug 2016, 8:53 pm

#1029121

I believe the main problem is that when rubber bushes are new etc they can twist and move without virtually any wear... until 50 years later....

Nolathane and similar Bushes are a dense Polyurethane type bushing that CANNOT twist etc...
So the torsion bar - sway bar - and any other metal piece mounted on or in or around the NOLATHANE Bushing ----
they will just TURN inside the Nolathane bushing until it wears badly...
==========================================
There is NO Comparison between RUBBER that can be twisted and compressed etc on shafts and torsion bars etc. as OEM
or NOLATHANE bushes which are a hard type of Polyurethane ...
These can not be twisted or compressed like rubber....

LEE

- Helping keep Air Cooled VWs on the road - location: SCONE in the Upper Hunter Valley - Northern NSW 320 kms NNW of SYDNEY---