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So well I broke the little cheap plastic thing when I was changing my light for LED on my cluster. So I ordered my cable from nissan. I searched a lot. and I learn that the cable is connected to the gearbox and pass throught the firewall.

But euh.. does some have picture of where exactly it goes? and how do you disconnect it? Will I have to change the fluid after?

Thanks :D

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I assume this in an R32 ?

There are three bolts to undo in the engine bay, near the steering column. Undo these, pull cable to the left in the cabin, and it will come out from its slot. Pull from the engine bay, making sure now and then it's not getting caught on something. Crawl under car, unclip cable from brackets, unscrew shield from gearbox..

Fit new cable reverse of this.

No you will not have to change your gearbox oil.

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I assume this in an R32 ?

There are three bolts to undo in the engine bay, near the steering column. Undo these, pull cable to the left in the cabin, and it will come out from its slot. Pull from the engine bay, making sure now and then it's not getting caught on something. Crawl under car, unclip cable from brackets, unscrew shield from gearbox..

Fit new cable reverse of this.

No you will not have to change your gearbox oil.

So I tried to change it today. WASTED 3 HOURS OF MY TIMESicon_ChairShot.gif.

How the heck do you UNBOLT THOSE 3 BOLTS?? Is there a special tools? I can't do it with a tiny screwdriver because I don't have enought force. With a long screwdriver it just wont fit.

And with a ratchet, I don't have enought space to ''wind up''

PLEASE HELP!001_help.gif001_help.gif001_help.gif001_help.gif001_help.gif

My car is a BNR32

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predator Grand Master

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You will need a socket, or spanner (I think it's a 10mm) and nimble hands :) but no special tools required. There isn't much room I agree to move around, maybe less so on a GTR.

If you jack up the car, it may be easier to do it from underneath.

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Yeah 10mm bolts. 3 of em. ratched with extensions is all you need. The whole plate comes off the firewall. I did have my dash out as I think there is a clip just before it goes into the back of the cluster.

It's a simple job.

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Okay . 4 hours later. Job is still not done. So I'm down to a 6 hours spent and still not done...

How do you insert the gearbox cable end STRAIGHT??? I spent the last hour trying to bolt it but it will always go too much to the right, too low, too high. It just wont ****in go straight and fit so I can bolt it.

I did insert the metal piece in the hole of the gear box but I just can't bolt the bolt on the gearbox because it is misaligned..

Please Help serioulsy. I'm really about to sell my gtr because of that freakin stupid 70$ mods.

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umm i thought the cable that fits into the gearbox end has a notch and fits only 1 way.. bugger.. maybe try with the old cable on the gearbox to see how it fitted

For sure it is one way, but since the cable is so ''strech'' it wont hold in place. so it will make my bolt ''offset'' so i can't screw it forward.And the force is so big that I can't hold the cable at the ''right'' place with one hand and screw with the other.

Hope you understand what I mean?

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have u already plugged in the other end to the cluster?? from memory, my cable had a nice loop before coming into the gearbox, certainly wasnt strained like yours??

dont know if gts-t cables are any shorter, maybe wrong cable supplied by nissan.. gts-t ones have few teeths to the gtr so wont work on gtr but not sure if length is different

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