First thanks for taking slow enough for people to understand what you’re saying . Second the whole design is terrible and really a pathetic excuse for engineering. American cars and trucks from the forties to current models have never had these totally unnecessary issues. Everything looks like it was an afterthought and not seriously designed. Front wheel drive cars pretty much became common for American made vehicles since 1980, I don’t know anyone or worked on any American made or Asian made vehicles that has ever had silly issues like these mid eighties VW have. I owned a bettle in High School great little car but the Jetta is not at all in the same category. I have an 01 Cavalier 5 speed manual almost 300K and it still is running great no issues like your having at all. I replaced the Alternator and the Radiator and earlier this year the ECM other than that everything is original. I had Datsuns and Toyota again no issues with shifting at all. The only reason I own the 85 Jetta was to run it on WVO and I had a nice system I built to do that. The Jetta was very cheap as compared to small diesel powered pickup trucks which is what I wanted but didn’t want to spend that much money 💴, bad decision without a doubt. All the small truck diesel don’t self destruct if the timing belt was to break, again a bad design in my opinion.

Where did you buy this kit ?

Recently found a shift link kits pretty pricey and custom. Redesigns the entire linkage making it shift like a more modern car.

Love your video, it really helped me😊

Saved my but Thank you for the video

Thanks Sir

thanks man

Well done. Thanks!

Just learned why my gti won’t go in reverse, thanks making vid on this!

Nice job bro respect can u show me where u buy all te sttuf about this job plz contact me

Perfect repair

How did you take the peace off 7:32

This linkage is extremely overcomplicated. As a return you get shitty switching response and a lot of wobble. Dont have a clue why VW had to do it like this. The cars I had before only had 2 rods from the lever to the gearbox, one of which was only a support to hold the lever in an exact place.

Hi There, got a 1997 m2 vw caddy. Can you recommend a kit from the stick to the box. Everything I see on ebay says not compatible, but looks very similar to your project. Any help would be a bonus. Thanks in advance.

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Tenk so match Gays, Brasil 🔧🚘

Did this yesterday, everything works except 5th gear, why?

There are many incomplete operations in the video, for example How the gear sticks were fitted to the rod in the box How was the box disassembled? We saw everything on the table ready

thanks so much Austan, just a disclaimer, the little ball thingy melts in like a year with those aftermarket white ones... smh

Doing this repair on the Jetta in my driveway. A few of those bushings have definitely seen better days.

СПАСИБО ,единственное подробное видео

This is very similar to the mk3 setup at least on my 2000 Cabrio

I am planing to replace main orange/translucent bushing on fathers in law '97 Seat Cordoba. This was what I needed to see to get waluable information and details. Thank you a lot. Regards, MS

I found it very useful to down load and save these repair videos to a memory card then I take a small tablet or phone and I am able to watch if I have any questions. This one is defenetly one of the best DIY's produced. How could anyone give this a thumbs down? Must be Honda Drivers. Not even a Toyata wrench would do that. ps. when you guys who don't aslready own a Bentley Repair Manual buy the hard back addition you'll be glad you did. my soft cover is falling apart. Better watch a yourtube on rebuilding your Bentley Manual.

7:35 does that piece need a bushing in the center too?

Reason no 1 im buying one XD

Hi, i have a SEAT INCA 1.9 year 1998, and it has almost every part you showed, except the first thing (it has some change i think) Can that be posible?

Спасибо! Thanks!)

I don't understand people who disassemble parts, why can't they (CLEAN YOUR FUCKIN PARTS) as you reassemble the job back together! Fuckin slobs

How did you get the short plastic arm on?? Please sir

New to the vw world, had a 89 fox 20 years ago loved it . I now bought a 91 Jetta gl 1.8 8 valve wanted to know how to scan for codes

Hablo español este amigo .se ve q explica bien las cosas paso por paso pero no entiendo

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I know next to nothing about cars, just wondering if this will be a good guide for my 83 Rabbit?

Did you go to princess Anne high??

Thanks for the video.... Legend

Did you have to remove the muffler to get the assembly out?

This really helped me with my '89 Scirocco. It had exactly the same problems too! Thanks.

Thanks Austin, thats an amazing help right there, u explained almost everything. Cheers

Hi my name Melissa in n Tennessee I have Jetta that I'm trying to fix myself it quit shifting period gear shift just came lose n floated so I got the replacement bushing kit your vid is helpful but I not sure I can do it myself If u c this please reply and I will send u my email address if u have time and think u can help me please and thank you

for the last two bushings i went to loosen the long bolt and now its just spinning... did i just fuck up lol

Hi, thanks for a great video! I am about to change the gear linkage bushings in my Golf -88 during the fall and this video is really informative, has everything you need to know. Greetings from Sweden

"Yeah, you gotta remove that screw for the whole box to drop down. Ask me how I know." XD sums up life as a backyard mechanic!

Austin, can you help with the bushing installation that you had to do off camera at 10:35? You say lube the bushing and you imply that it was a PITA. I've lubed the bushing, tried compressing it with a clamp, then a vice with no luck. I've tried prying it with compression, etc. I'm about to give up and rivet the dang thing. Any final suggestions or hints?

Watching this for my Vw golf mk2 and so far it looks like ill be using your guide again. even after laughing at the brain fart a few times

thanks man !!!

That's a Lamborghini Gallardo btw. Love the exhaust sound too, sounds great.

Merci pour cette vidéo. :)

not looking forward to doing mine,thanks for the info ,very informative

Way to shut down that Lamborghini, I guess the bushing kit made all this possible. No wonder everyone is so thankful for your upgrade video. With performance like this I am going to up grade mine. lol