Column shift plastic bushing... July 31, 2006, 06:12:29 PM Has anyone had to deal with this little before? If not, let me explain where it's at. It resides near the firewall on the inside of the car at the bottom of the steering column. It's a little black plastic bushing that holds the column shifter from flopping around. Mine flops around and as a result I cannot get the car into park.If it turns out that this repair requres that I take the column back out of the car, then I'll just forget it and do a floor shifter (which I plan on doing anyway, eventually.)So, anyone know if it's possible to snap the plastic ring-bushing thing back around the column shifter rod and down into it's resident cut-out? Quote Selected
Column shift plastic bushing... Reply #1 – August 01, 2006, 05:49:12 PM I *think* the column has to come out. I figure if mine ever breaks I'll just do the floor shifter conversion. Can you even get that bushing anymore? Quote Selected
Column shift plastic bushing... Reply #2 – August 01, 2006, 09:14:34 PM hmm, I havent heard of that.... Quote Selected
Column shift plastic bushing... Reply #3 – August 01, 2006, 09:40:25 PM It's a bastid for sure. I think I'll just fix my e-brake and use that for now. Then once I get my floor shifter (ahem, Alex), I'll do that. Quote Selected
Column shift plastic bushing... Reply #4 – August 01, 2006, 09:50:30 PM Here's a question, Brian.What if you went ahead and cut the hole in the floor pan for the shifter, even though you're short on parts.Then you could hook up a "Rube Goldberg" kind of deal to the shift linkage through the floor.My Dad did this to an Aerostar we used to have. The column shifter went awry, so he rigged something up through the floorboard. I thought it was pretty cool, actually.That way you're one step ahead on the floor shifter swap. Quote Selected
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