R33 Gtr Gearstick

[nizmo_freek]

Hi

Just picked up my r33 gtr a couple of days ago, got it home and gave it a good inspection, only thing i could find wrong with it was the gearbox looked to have a leak somewhere.

I thought it could possibly be the top boot that seals the gearstick to the gearbox, and sure enough i was right, when i was removing the boots i found to little half round peices of alloy and 2 tiny allan key bolts just sitting inside one of the boots floating around not attached to anything.

Got the last boot off and sure enought there is transfer case fluid everywhere, and there was no clamp at all holding the top of the boot to the gearstick.

In my 25t the top of the boot is normally just cable tied onto the end on the gearstick and that seems to work fine.

So i was thinking that the alloy "clamp" that i found floating around in on of the boots might be to clamp the top of the bot to the gearstick, seems weird that they dont just use a cable tie but im thinking maybe they use this clamp because the transfer case fluid is more pressurised and can escape from the top of the boot , unlike in my 25t.

So i just wanted to make sure if this is a standard nissan part, is has it been added aftermarket for some reason? and also does the gearstick look standard as it feels completly different to the shifts in my 25t.

Car is a 97 series 3 r33 gtr

Cheers

Jason

Here is what im talking about

Edited January 4, 2009 by nizmo_freek

[Travis Trayhern]

stick looks standard apart from that alloy clamp above the boot usually these are 1 pc

[nizmo_freek]

stick looks standard apart from that alloy clamp above the boot usually these are 1 pc

So yours has the alloy clamp aswell? have just been told by someone else that knows there stuff that the alloy clamp isnt a stock part.

Edited January 5, 2009 by nizmo_freek

[Travis Trayhern]

i said apart from the alloy clamp, the alloy clamp shouldnt be there is it holding it together? maybe ya got ya self a short shifter.

[ali-turko]

stock shifters are also black, but i guess it wouldnt be hard to strip the paint, but then again why whould you