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Old 08-16-2011, 12:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Zacharias View Post
As I said in the post, the 1980 has a vacuum-only transmission. It was a one-year-only deal. There is no connection to the throttle linkages.

It's been the subject of a few threads on here.
My 1981 722.118 doesn't have this whole bowden cable set up either - just the select lever and then the vacuum pod at the back. Is that the same as yours? Sounds like it...
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