Snapped gear linkage

Snapped gear linkage

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yohan

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38 posts

259 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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Bloody thing snapped on Friday leaving me stuck in 2nd. Luckily it was quite close to home, mostly downhill and little other traffic around. So I used a combination of quick blasts and coasting to make it back to my own driveway. (Coasting downhill at 60mph with the roof off is a silent and very surreal experience in a Tuscy!)

The gearlever is obviously disconnected inside somewhere and moves back/forward but not sideways. Fingers crossed it can be fixed without gearbox removal. Engine and gearbox were removed about 3 months ago (engine rebuild and missing 5th gear) so I'm a bit p*ssed off to say the least.

Anyone else had this happen?

Jon

p.s. Nice motoring weather

yohan

Original Poster:

38 posts

259 months

Thursday 14th August 2003
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Repaired pretty quickly. Bolt had come undone, probably not done up properly when the gearbox was removed a couple of months ago. A bit worrying! Hope all the other bolts have been tightened enough!

Dealer has also made an upgrade/modification to the gear linkage moving everything slightly backwards. Reverse is now a bugger to engage, hopefully it will loosen up.