Blain Gatterdam

Hey everyone, I have a 77 g-10 van that I am trying to get running (and eventually restore)

It has a 3 on the tree column shifter, which likes to jam into a gear until you get under the hood and line the columns up again. My parents (original owners) figured out how to drive it like this for who knows how long (along with no power steering!) so i'd like to just make it right.

My dad said something about replacing the bushings so it would be tight again, but I dont even know where to start.

Any help would be appriciated, until then I am going to finish the brakes and buy new tires for my exploder (and the van will get the kuhmos... yuck!)

This is the only thing holding it back from running, the I-6 runs like a top!

anyway, i look forward to (hopefully) the vast knowledge of this forum, and hopefully I can give some back.

-Blain

thundermug47

you can get bushing from napa or dealer there not hard to replace just remove cotter pins or clips it there still therem the old bushing are probably missing
there are some on trand mission and some on colum under the hood easy fix, then u adjust linkage if you need help just let me know ill tell u how to adjust it it will be much better thundermug

Blain Gatterdam

how do i get to them? does the steering column need to be lifted out to do so?

ill start looking, but is there a part name you can point me to for getting parts?

(poking through napa now)

thundermug47

no reason to remove column there called shifter bushings,most year gm collums are the same, there are 2 on transmission 2 in shifter armn under hood these are the ones that hand up

thundermug47

after you install bushing there plastic just push in then you align shifter rods