911hillclimber wrote:The short shaft is awkward to move, pity you did not set the box in a gear before detaching the coupling.
The box you have I think is a dog leg 1st, so 3rd is to the left of the H and back on the lever.
Put the coupling on the box and tighten. Easier to manipulate the box this way.
It must be loose to the shift tube from the gear lever.
Find neutral so obviously this is the plane across the H
Looking straight at the end of the gearbox shaft...
Hope I'm right here, twist the coupling across the neutral plane anti clockwise fully and push it towards the gearbox. It should go in about 10 or 15mm and be set in position by the detent ball within the box.
The box should then be in 3rd gear
Move the lever to 3rd and tighten the clamp sleeve.
Move the lever to check you can select all the gears. Start the engine and select each gear to see if they all are correct by carefully slipping the clutch and move a few feet.
Reverse and first should be easy, 2/3 rd harder and 4/ that really hard to move.
Good luck!
Well I selected SOMETHING and then went through the process - only to find it felt like I couldn't select first and reverse. I figured I must have started out in first gear and it was actually fourth and fifth that weren't available. So I selected something else - pretty much top dead centre - and I reckon that was third because then the process worked perfectly. At least, the action feels great now. But I can't start and run the car just now to see for sure because it's up on ramps with various other bits hanging off.
It's not surprising a few bushes make such a huge difference because the gear lever is so long so any play is magnified by twenty or thirty times.
As it turned out I was just about able to select the gears with the short shaft.
P.S. without your instructions I think the fact the short shaft moves in reverse direction to the gear stick, would have thrown me. It's obvious once you know but hadn't occurred to me.
1970 911T, Signal orange (
Restoration thread)
1988 3.2 Carrera backdate, Black
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I covered it with isopropyl alcohol / white spirit / detergent mixture this weekend, and jetwashed since that photo. I just haven't taken a new photo since. It's still quite greasy but I heard brushing it can damage the coating so just need to check what's safe first. It seems to be a mix of underseal and transmission oil - so not just grease and takes quite a bit of work to get it off.
