Originally Posted by Rhinodart
Bought a barely used 1985 Shelby Charger 2.2 Turbo 5-speed for the wife in 1986. Great little car and pretty quick until the first set of shift linkages went out. Who the he!! was the idiot who decided to use plastic sockets on both ends of the linkage going into metal balls? Just how long did you think they would last bean counter? After several trips to snap the linkage back on and burn my wrists on the exhaust I finally bought the last of the stock of these linkages, then someone comes out with a fix. Still have that car, but it is lowly rusting away... wave


Might talk to this guy, he's come up with a fix for this issue on some models, not sure if you Shelby can use them, ask I suppose.

https://www.boogerracing.com/boogerbushings.html