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[BHDave]

All i know is it's a little cylinder shaped thing about 12mm in diameter and about the same high (i could be completely wrong on the dimensions by the way). It has a hollow centre that is shaped to be a tight fit over the ball on the bottom of the stick

[lingeringsoul]

ok here;s the picture taken after i removed the rubber bits.

Just a quick question, is the circlip supposed to be loose? and is that bronze looking piece suppose to have that top bit missing?

I'm just running off to the hardware store to get myself a pair of needle nosed pliers to remove the circlip

Edited January 16, 2006 by lingeringsoul

[lingeringsoul]

ok just took the thing apart and had a look inside, this is what i saw....i supposed the plastic ring is supposed to be sitting inside the metal ring?

well it took me half an hour to actually get it out and when I finally put it in the right position, it was going fine. But when I try to put the circlip back on again, it went loose again, could it be that the ring poped out again?

now I gotta make another trip to the hardware store to get a circlip pliers because the cheap 2.75 pari of pliers are losing their teeth...................

[benm]

Some comments about the first picture:

1) You have -heaps- of little metal filings in there, are you sure you still have all 5 gears intact? I took mine apart like you have only a few days ago and didnt see any metal filings at all (gearbox oil was changed 2wks ago though).

2) The white plastic bush... See how the right side of it (in the pic) is worn back abit but the left/bottom part is worn back heaps (ie its not even all the way around the bush) I dont recall mine (RB26DETT) having any of that. It was a perfectly smooth/square corner not sorta at that angle like yours is.

[Triskillion]

in my mates old old shit box a year ago, when in gear the gear stick could move left or right as if it was in neatural... so whenever one of us drove it, we had to remember what gear it was in etc etc.

[benm]

That is what mine is like right now, doesn't matter what gear im actually in the stick looks like it's in neutral.

[lingeringsoul]

UPDATE: Finally!!! its fixed, after 2 hours, its finally fixed. The problem was the first time I put the plastic bit back in, I didn't correctly fit it into the ball at the end of the lever, so when I wriggled the stick around, it must have come loose and feel back onto the side again. So this time around, I took the plastic bush out and fitted it onto the ball and then carefully put it back into the metal ring, then locked it up with the circlip. I gave it a good couple of shifts just to test it out and it seems to be fine for now. How it got out of that hole in the first place is still a mystry, maybe the vibration of the car knocked it loose, or maybe it just needs replacing. Well, i'll leave it for now and see how long it lasts, if the problem keeps coming back, then I'll get it replaced.

This has been quite an interesting experience taking the gear lever apart all by myself and see what was inside. My dad used to do it when I was little and I didn't really know why he was so into it. I guess I understand now. Working on it all by myself seems to bring on a sense of achievement which really felt good.

A pair of pliers - $2.75

A pair of circlip pliers - $13.95

Fixing the problem all by yourself - PRICELESS

[woolls]

UPDATE:  Finally!!! its fixed, after 2 hours, its finally fixed.  The problem was the first time I put the plastic bit back in, I didn't correctly fit it into the ball at the end of the lever, so when I wriggled the stick around, it must have come loose and feel back onto the side again.  So this time around, I took the plastic bush out and fitted it onto the ball and then carefully put it back into the metal ring, then locked it up with the circlip.  I gave it a good couple of shifts just to test it out and it seems to be fine for now.  How it got out of that hole in the first place is still a mystry, maybe the vibration of the car knocked it loose, or maybe it just needs replacing.  Well, i'll leave it for now and see how long it lasts, if the problem keeps coming back, then I'll get it replaced.

This has been quite an interesting experience taking the gear lever apart all by myself and see what was inside.  My dad used to do it when I was little and I didn't really know why he was so into it.  I guess I understand now.  Working on it all by myself seems to bring on a sense of achievement which really felt good. 

A pair of pliers - $2.75

A pair of circlip pliers - $13.95

Fixing the problem all by yourself - PRICELESS

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good to hear you got it fixed

[BHDave]

It's probably worth getting a new piece for it while it's working as it is likely to happen again eventually.

The other thing is the metal filings look like they have come from the top edge of the grooves on the right and left hand side of the pivot ball. How that bit has been broken i dont know but its likely a result of the stick coming loose and so moving further than designed.

[lingeringsoul]

broken?? whats broken?

[BHDave]

On your first photo you can see the large slot on the right of the pivot ball. That should have clean square edges, it looks like the edge has been damaged, and thats where the bits of metal are from. Nothing major to worry about, it wont affect anything as long as the little bit's of metal are cleaned out.