Moving our attention to both the shift lever and rod on our 190SL. The shift action wasn't that bad or so we thought at the time not having driven another example. But we were curious as to the condition of the current bushings so we decided to open it up, take a look and swap out the bushings anyway as it's an easy and inexpensive basic maintenance project.

We tackled the shift lever first as it features two bushings encapsulating the pivot ball and two bushings just below that for the lever - rod junction.

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