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Gear/Brake Release - 1/6/2008 2:57:47 PM    akolodny   Posts: 16 Joined: 12/16/2005 Status: offline Dear Seville Enthusiasts, On cold mornings, it is very difficult for me to engage the shifter into gear.  I've had the mechanisms lubricated before and that helped, but I imagine there is some kind of vacuum actuator connected to the brake pedal.  Sometimes, I really have to jingle and put some pressure before the shifter releases and goes right, so that I can take it down and into gear.  Is there a part that I should replace? Thanks, alan Post #: 1

RE: Gear/Brake Release - 1/7/2008 7:43:02 AM    pjbizjak   Posts: 6 Joined: 1/1/2008 Status: offline What year is your seville? Console or column shift? (in reply to akolodny) Post #: 2

RE: Gear/Brake Release - 1/8/2008 11:14:07 AM    akolodny   Posts: 16 Joined: 12/16/2005 Status: offline It is a 1998 Seville STS with a console shifter. (in reply to akolodny) Post #: 3

RE: Gear/Brake Release - 1/8/2008 6:11:16 PM    slowroll   Posts: 1254 Joined: 10/3/2007 Status: offline It not vacuum its electric. Has drink ever spilled on shifter area of console? If so shift linkage within console maybe gummed up. (in reply to akolodny) Post #: 4

RE: Gear/Brake Release - 1/9/2008 7:03:39 AM    akolodny   Posts: 16 Joined: 12/16/2005 Status: offline Very interesting.  I've never spilled a drink there, but I purchased the car used.  I oughta ask my mechanic to go in there and see.  Is it really involved to go in there and clean it up? (in reply to akolodny) Post #: 5

RE: Gear/Brake Release - 1/11/2008 7:20:35 PM    slowroll   Posts: 1254 Joined: 10/3/2007 Status: offline Its not hard to see, if its gunked up it can be difficult to clean. (in reply to akolodny) Post #: 6

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