Mark, After I clean all the old grease off the shifting mechanism and do any adjustment I use axle grease to re lubricate all that because it won't get hard with the cold and won't melt off when it gets hot. You may also want to spray a Teflon type grease on it to soak into the tight spots. The shifting pivot bolt may also need some cleaning and grease due to age and being where it is it gets dirty. Then the linkage going into the trans. I also use a Teflon base lubricate in the manual transmission to better lubricate it. John Hervey www.specialtauto.com -----Original Message----- From: DMCVIN6683 [mailto:dmcvin6683@xxxx] Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:26 PM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] MANUAL SHIFTING (5spd) I know there are a number of shift patterns today but they all seem to rest in the middle of the neutral position of every new car i have driven and every old car i have driven. I never had a cars shifter rest anywhere but the middle of neutral. For any unfamiliar drivers should be told of all of the different things to find on any car no matter if it is a Delorean or ford escort, thats how things get broken if the drivers are not told! Mark On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 03:48 PM, deloreanernst@xxxx wrote: > In a message dated 1/10/04 4:28:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, > samuel_yahoo@xxxx writes: > > >> Do you drive any other manuals? Any manual I've driven requires you to >> move left to get to 1st and 2nd and right to get to 5th. This is the >> standard form for manual to operate. > > There are a number of shift patterns in the road today. What I > learned a > stick shift on went to the junkyard decades ago! Still, it'd be nice > if the > "lift" showed on the knob diagram for unfamiliar drivers. When I take > my D to the > shop, I always remind them how it shifts into reverse... and how to > close the > engine cover! > -Wayne > 11174 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderators@xxxx > > For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see > www.dmcnews.com > > To search the archives or view files, log in at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > Come see all of my Photo's at my Website. http://photos.yahoo.com/snextime To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/