Gear stick not quite sitting right

[alienbob]

I've noticed that my gearstick is not quite sitting between 3rd and 4th done a bit of reading about and it could be 2 things; the oil needs changing or the linkage and brushes need replacing. Going to have a go at replacing the oil first looks to be pretty straight forward so would like to give it a go.

Was going to replace it with about 3 litres of this:

http://www.opieoils.co.uk/p-723-castrol-epx75w-80-...

Any hints on what to do other than what is on the Sandsmuseum site?

[MrP80]

Is your car a 111r? Looking at the info in your profile I wasn't sure, if it's not the guide on Sands won't be much good as it's instructions for a Toyota engined car

[alienbob]

Nope its a K series, best have a careful look first. Are the workshop manuals you get on Fleabay useful for this sort of thing?

[noodleman]

I'd put money on it being the linkage.

Get the eliseparts gear linkage kit. Made a world of difference to mine. Much more positive gearchange and stick centres properly.

[Justin S]

your find that the bell crank linkage is full of muck and gunge.Needs cleaning out and regreasing.Also just get a set of the nylon replacement gear linkage bushes from e-bay for £17. Much cheaper than Eliseparts bits, but do the same job.The only difference is that you don't get the rose joints, which when I did mine with the ebay kit, rose joints were fine anyway.All instructions are there and will transform the linkage and gear change.He also does a kit with a short shift, which might be worth buying both together.The linkage and bell crank job will take an hour or so as you have to remove the under tray .

[alienbob]

Excellent, I shall certainly have a look this weekend to see about cleaning it out, seems a shame to be working on the car when there is so much good weather on the horizon, should be out driving it

[R.P.M]

As said above, it will be a linkage problem, see hear:-

http://www.eliseparts.com/products.php?product=174

and while your at it:-

http://www.eliseparts.com/products.php?product=176

HTH

Rpm

[rico28]

I sometimes find my gear stick gets caught between 2nd and 3rd. Also, when I put it in reverse, about 50% of the time it doesn't go in properly and you hear a loud and horrid winding noise. I don't think it does any damage though so I have never done anything about it. Would this be a gear linkage problem as well? Or something different?

Car is a S2 standard K-Series.

Cheers

[Justin S]

I would look at bleeding the clutch hydraulics and see if that makes a difference.

[alienbob]

rico28 said:

I sometimes find my gear stick gets caught between 2nd and 3rd. Also, when I put it in reverse, about 50% of the time it doesn't go in properly and you hear a loud and horrid winding noise. I don't think it does any damage though so I have never done anything about it. Would this be a gear linkage problem as well? Or something different?

Car is a S2 standard K-Series.

Cheers

Same car, not too bad going into reverse, just thought it was being new to a proper gearbox