I'm a V8 guy, but the club sedan has the nicest lines of all the 22-23rd Series body styles, IMHO.
Though I have little hands-on experience with these cars, I've been compiling content for this site's
Service Index feature, as a directory to material that supplements the shop manuals and parts books archived here.
It seems like most of the teething pains with the column shifter were overcome before your car was made, but some of the lessons learned along the way may still apply. An article published in
SC Vol. 20, No. 5 and titled "That Gearshift Still Sticks" was written with earlier models (18th-21st) in mind, but identifies some important areas that you may want to check. Although your car should have been built with all of the updates cited, like steel rather than rubber bushings, some of those parts may simply be suffering from wear-n-tear.
Perhaps other members with similar models and equipment will chime in with their experience regarding this issue.
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