Screw Down The Shifter Hole

[RB30 Ceffy]

used a shifter from this GTR for another car that needed it and then I was pulling out the sc player and a screw fell down the damn shifter.

Anyways is the best wa for me to get it out to just get it on the fork lift and shake it and hope it falls out or can I pull the box apart easly. Im not too fimilar to takeing these apart.

[MANWHORE]

get it on the forklift and shake it? You mean put the car on a forklift?Jeez you canadians are very weird!

Never use a forklift on your skyline. The chassis rails are weak as butter and you'll bend them.

If you pull the box apart, you'll probably wreck the seals and have to replace them.

[Kinks]

putting it on a forklift and shaking it sounds like a recipe for the skyline and the forklift ending up on their side on the ground. with bent chassis rails.

there is oil in the bottom of your gearbox, shaking it will do sweet FA the screw will just stick in the oil.

what I would consider doing, and remember I am pulling this out of my arse so I make no guarantees it won't make things worse.. is that the first thing you do assuming you have touched NOTHING since the screw fell down there.. is fish around in the gearbox with a magnetic screw grabber (a magnet on the end of a telescopic stick). see if you can grab it out the top.

failing that, i would jack the rear wheels up, hold the clutch in and have a friend spin the wheels gently one way and if they bind, then gently the other way. you want to try and help the screw fall down into the bottom of the box.

if you can spin it as much as you want in either direction, then drop the oil and hope it comes out. if it doesn't, then you might need to improvise a bent stick to probe around the bottom of the inside of the gearbox with your magnet and hopefully pick it up that way.

good luck to ya anyway, next time don't drop the screw

[MANWHORE]

hahaha, good old improvised tools.

GF walks into the workshop. what is this bent stick here? want me to chuck it out for you? Leave it, that's a tool!

[RB30 Ceffy]

HAHA I cant believe you guys

The trans is out of the car. I ment tie a seat belt around the trans and just shake it upside down:P

But ya my ideas were pretty much the same as yours with the magnet and bent tool. I just wanted to know if the box could come apart easly but replacing seals would suck so I just keep fishing and hopefully I kets myself a nice screw.

Edited February 21, 2007 by RB30 Ceffy