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Gear lever alignment
Posted: 24 Jan 2011, 11:40
by AdrianC
Somewhere along the lines, somebody's done something a bit funny to the gear lever in our new Westy. Selecting second puts your knuckles at great risk of meeting the heater controls, whilst fourth and the stereo - well, I had to turn the gearknob (a horrible leather "ergonomic" thing) 180deg...
Is the lever adjustable, or am I going to have to either get curvaciously bendy with it or just replace it?
Re: Gear lever alignment
Posted: 24 Jan 2011, 14:53
by Cruz
Sounds like it's bent to me
Re: Gear lever alignment
Posted: 24 Jan 2011, 16:37
by AdrianC
Cruz wrote:Sounds like it's bent to me
If it's got bent over time, then it's been done _very_ neatly indeed, and below floor level...
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On the left - Neutral.
On the right - 4th. With the gearlever round 180deg (as it "feels" like it should be), finding 4th is a bit tricky, assuming you place any value on your knuckles.
Re: Gear lever alignment
Posted: 24 Jan 2011, 19:41
by Aidan
4 speed or 5 speed ?
basically your linkage is too long, if you find the uj in the middle of the linkage under the van you will probably see that the clamped joint is showing some clean metal on the splined bit, slacken the joint and very judiciously tap the end of the linkage at the gearbox to shorten the whole thing a smidge and retighten the bolt, good to have someone in the cab holding the funny red thing whilst you do it
Re: Gear lever alignment
Posted: 24 Jan 2011, 19:44
by AdrianC
Aidan wrote:4 speed or 5 speed ?
Five.
basically your linkage is too long, if you find the uj in the middle of the linkage under the van you will probably see that the clamped joint is showing some clean metal on the splined bit, slacken the joint and very judiciously tap the end of the linkage at the gearbox to shorten the whole thing a smidge and retighten the bolt
Fantastic, cheers.
good to have someone in the cab holding the funny red thing whilst you do it
Oooh, matron!
Re: Gear lever alignment
Posted: 29 Jan 2011, 19:01
by AdrianC
Aidan wrote:basically your linkage is too long, if you find the uj in the middle of the linkage under the van you will probably see that the clamped joint is showing some clean metal on the splined bit, slacken the joint and very judiciously tap the end of the linkage at the gearbox to shorten the whole thing a smidge and retighten the bolt, good to have someone in the cab holding the funny red thing whilst you do it
It seems to have worked! Thanks for that, Aidan. You have saved a lot of blood being shed from my knuckles.
Now just to get a slightly less revolting gearknob...
