Fiat ducato 1986 mk1 5th gear

[kevinarbury]

Hi there,

So my wife and I are currently touring around Europe in our mk1 1986 fiat ducato and all is well....until the other day when I tried to put it into 5th gear it didn't seem to quite engage properly and made and strange rumbling noise and shuddering feeling. I knocked it back into 4th then tried 5th again, problem solved.

This has happened a few times since.

Any ideas what's going on????

I spoke to a guy back in UK and he thought it sounds like the nut holding 5th gear place is loose so not aligning properly. We return to UK on March 5th so I guess I'll have to take it to a gearbox specialist????

Once it's in 5th it's OK.


Annoying..

Any ideas????

Cheers,

Kev

[Johnnybee]

You might get some help if you post on some motorhome forums as I'm sure I've read that this is a common problem on the older Ducatos. Motorhome fun forum is helpful for stuff like this.

[cptsideways]

Its a standard feature!


The linkages are the problem, they wear & finally the lever wont have enough reach. There is a chap in Sussex who does a fix for these. Its not expensive.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEdaIeDjJEU


JK Towers offer the fix