Spinning gear knob!

[notax]

I bought my Chimaera back from the friend I sold it to after he wrote it of... Anyway, he had fitted a different gear knob and I've now put the original back on but it keeps coming undone and when tightened up the selector pattern is upside down. Should there be a collar of some type or does the knob just screw on? Would using threadlock help?

[Bassfiend229hp]

notax said:

I bought my Chimaera back from the friend I sold it to after he wrote it of... Anyway, he had fitted a different gear knob and I've now put the original back on but it keeps coming undone and when tightened up the selector pattern is upside down. Should there be a collar of some type or does the knob just screw on? Would using threadlock help?

There does seem to be a collar on mine ... haven't worked out how to adjust it though!

[Tinker15]

notax said:

I bought my Chimaera back from the friend I sold it to after he wrote it of... Anyway, he had fitted a different gear knob and I've now put the original back on but it keeps coming undone and when tightened up the selector pattern is upside down. Should there be a collar of some type or does the knob just screw on? Would using threadlock help?

There's a collar on mine.

[Mr Nordic]

Hi
There should be a collar under the knob that lets you tighten the knob in the correct position.

[Bassfiend229hp]

...I *BELIEVE* it should have a small lockscrew that holds it tight.

[notax]

Thanks, that's what I feared. I'll see if I can get hold of one from a salvage yard

[JonathanT]

my '99 450 has a collar below the gear knob that acts a bit like a locking nut.

[QBee]

Bassfiend229hp said:

...I *BELIEVE* it should have a small lockscrew that holds it tight.

Not on mine - just the shaped collar underneath.
And it does tend to come undone until you get the knob and collar locked together. You can adjust the height of the collar to suit the orientation of the know by trial and error.
So just keep fiddling with your knob and everything will eventually tighten up satisfactorily

[Bassfiend229hp]

QBee said:

So just keep fiddling with your knob and everything will eventually tighten up satisfactorily

I refuse to rise to that one...

[QBee]

Bassfiend229hp said:

QBee said:

So just keep fiddling with your knob and everything will eventually tighten up satisfactorily

I refuse to rise to that one...

That's enough of a rise for me......I will be smiling all the way to work, thanks, Phil

[Bassfiend229hp]

QBee said:

Bassfiend229hp said:

QBee said:

So just keep fiddling with your knob and everything will eventually tighten up satisfactorily

I refuse to rise to that one...

That's enough of a rise for me......I will be smiling all the way to work, thanks, Phil

Smiling at the thought of me rising QB? You're a sick sick *SICK* man! (...and does your wife know about this little deviation of yours - Fatman Fetishism!)

[QBee]

Just getting a response of any type was enough or me, as you know perfectly well, young Phillip

[Chilliman]

Bassfiend229hp said:

QBee said:

Bassfiend229hp said:

QBee said:

So just keep fiddling with your knob and everything will eventually tighten up satisfactorily

I refuse to rise to that one...

That's enough of a rise for me......I will be smiling all the way to work, thanks, Phil

Smiling at the thought of me rising QB? You're a sick sick *SICK* man! (...and does your wife know about this little deviation of yours - Fatman Fetishism!)

I hope this is not turning into another thread

[Bassfiend229hp]

Chilliman said:

I hope this is not turning into another thread

I dunno - with comments like ...

QBee said:

Just getting a response of any type was enough or me, as you know perfectly well, young Phillip

... it very well may be.

(...and I'm gonna leave it there as my initial thoughts for a reply would have me sinnbinned as I'm sure you can well guess, you evil person Chilli! )

I just never thought that QB would be a mountainside dwelling horticulturalist!

[QBee]

QB lives at 2 feet above sea level in the Fens.....in the same webbed-fingered county as Chilli. I wasn't born in Norfolk either....

[Bassfiend229hp]

Bassfiend229hp said:

I just never thought that QB would be a mountainside dwelling horticulturalist!

QBee said:

QB lives at 2 feet above sea level in the Fens.....in the same webbed-fingered county as Chilli. I wasn't born in Norfolk either....

I meant uphill gardener darling...

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