Shifter side-to-side play

[HatchFiend]

Hello everyone, I'm extremely new to the DSM scene. Just bought a '92 Talon with the 4g63t (not sure if the 't' is supposed to be there, it is turbo). Before buying this I was a big Honda fan, but I knew these cars were great cars and it was a great deal so I jumped on it. Now for the topic at hand:

The shifter is rather loose and I've read some previous forums on here some were referring to the gearshift linkage bushing (p/n: MB307949) or it could be the shifter base bushings. My friend told me to buy the shifter base busings and cable bushings so we can replace those. Will this fix the issue or would I also need to get the gearshift linkage bushing?

Thank you in advance for any help that anyone can provide.

Also, stock engine for the most part (ARP head studs and Cometic head gasket), turbo timer or no? And anything to watch out for with these cars/engines?

 

[Project90Talon]

Yea, I can go to a county and get it to pass since they don't check emissions, but my vehicle has to be registered in that county. Otherwise I have to do emissions. Luckily for me... the car only has 2 years until no more emissions testing.

Have another issue now... my friend said that he saw kind of like a puddle of water/oil... I don't know if he knows 100% that it's oil but none-the-less its water and a fluid where my car sat and idled... and then where I went forward there was another one there. Is this normal at idle? Because when I got home (about a 10-15 minute drive, approx. 20 miles) and put my hand behind the exhaust for a little bit there was no liquid substance that was getting on my hand... so maybe it's only when the car is cool? I'm working on uploading a video right now of a popping sound every now and then when I had the car idling.

Edit:: Okay, well the video upload failed miserably but it seems as though the liquid that comes out is water with a mix of maybe dirtiness of the exhaust. Hopefully that's what it is and I don't have any problems. Should also be getting the shifter fixed soon, about to order the parts for it. Then I need to get some new headlights... anyone know of some good places to get some? I'm going to look for some used stock ones for a reasonable price, but sometimes the aftermarket ones can be cheaper.

My car does something similar until it warms up a bit, though there is no visible liquid coming out. Depending on how rich you run at WOT and start-up there will be more soot buildup in the exhaust than "normal". I have noticed this happening every time I start it until it warms up and (at least in my case) it is neither oil nor coolant, merely condensation from the exhaust warming up and not running a cat. I check my fluid levels religiously and they are all still fine. I have also performed a compression check on the motor and the numbers were consistent and within spec, so that ruled out the HG. If it was a shaft seal on the turbo then as soon as you went into boost you would be deploying a James Bond smokescreen. There is a soot spot on the ground at the end of my parking spot at work, every night when I start it the spot is black, the next day it is almost a "firework residue" black/brown. I also run obnoxiously rich upon initial start-up and then it goes into typical openloop settings and am around 11.5:1 @ WOT.

Does this look familiar? Taken while it was still warming up

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Here's the parking spot with the "residue", just pulled up to work so that spot was unaltered for the day:

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This might also tell you that it is normal, at least for me.
http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/newbie-forum/370811-black-soot-exhaust-print.html

 

[HatchFiend]

That looks exactly like what it was. I knew it couldn't be oil or coolant when I put my finger in it and it wiped off immediately without any oil residue leftover. Thank you for helping make me feel a bit more at ease. Being so new to these cars as well as turbo cars, I'm not sure what to expect. All I know is that I'm definitely going to take better care of this car than I did my Taurus... so glad its gone... tried to kill it, but the engine kept going... finally the transaxle gave out...