I'm not very technically proficient, so please bear with my description of this problem:

I have an 82 se w/ the original v8 and A/T. There is a button which you must depress on the shifter in order to change gears (ie - from park to drive, etc.). This button (which has a pontiac logo and is attached to a thin 3-4 inch long plastic "stick" with several "*****" on it) jumps right out of the shifter column now when released after selecting a new gear. Sometimes it stays in the column, but it often springs out onto the passenger seat as of late. Can you tell me what parts have broken and how I go about fixing this?

Thank you, Keith

 

Just a bump up. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!

 

my 82 has one of these

mine broke up

if you inspect closely youll see that on the button there is a metal flat tang on both sides

you have to make sure they are bent correctly so they go into the handle correctly or they will bend incorrectly even more and it wont stay put in the handle

which its not, for you

same as it was doing to me

i broke my handle messing around with it and broke a tang off the button too

total loss

these round 82 shifters are a PITA

they like to come apart on you and screw up and stuff

im going to put either an 83 up one, or a B&M proshifter2 that i have in another car in it


good luck