A few weeks ago I took the 1973 911T for an early morning drive, and just when the car was warmed up, i lost the use of 3rd and 4rd gear.
I managed to time the traffic lights (when I managed to finally get the car in 3rd for once) and got the car back home fortunately.
I played around a bit with the gear coupler, but when re-adjusting I could either engage 1 to 4 or 3, 4, 5th and reverse. Finding a way to use all gears did not work.
The play in the shift coupler seemed acceptable so I then ordered a new shift rod bracket & bushing (in tunnel) and figured, since I bought a Stomski paradigm shifter - stealth edition (as in: looks like your standard 915) for the RSR a while ago, to replace the whole lot.
Anyway, long story short, the shifter install & new bushings all worked fine, but re-aligning it with the shift-coupler does not.
I can get into 1 & 2, but it is extremely hard to get it into 3 and 4 but I can't reach the most right plane (5th & reverse) at all.
I have been trying various things, knowing this arrangement can be very fiddly, but i can't get it to work.
And there's a lot of resistance from the box, to the point where I fear I may be about to break stuff.
So what's next? I am starting to fear that the actual gearbox, or the shift rod coming out of the box, may be the issue.
The gearbox has been very noisy for the last few years, so maybe it is just time for a rebuild?
This is not something I think I can do myself, so where would you recommend I go for either to analyze this or for a gearbox-rebuild in Melbourne?
thanks,
Patrick
I managed to time the traffic lights (when I managed to finally get the car in 3rd for once) and got the car back home fortunately.
I played around a bit with the gear coupler, but when re-adjusting I could either engage 1 to 4 or 3, 4, 5th and reverse. Finding a way to use all gears did not work.
The play in the shift coupler seemed acceptable so I then ordered a new shift rod bracket & bushing (in tunnel) and figured, since I bought a Stomski paradigm shifter - stealth edition (as in: looks like your standard 915) for the RSR a while ago, to replace the whole lot.
Anyway, long story short, the shifter install & new bushings all worked fine, but re-aligning it with the shift-coupler does not.
I can get into 1 & 2, but it is extremely hard to get it into 3 and 4 but I can't reach the most right plane (5th & reverse) at all.
I have been trying various things, knowing this arrangement can be very fiddly, but i can't get it to work.
And there's a lot of resistance from the box, to the point where I fear I may be about to break stuff.
So what's next? I am starting to fear that the actual gearbox, or the shift rod coming out of the box, may be the issue.
The gearbox has been very noisy for the last few years, so maybe it is just time for a rebuild?
This is not something I think I can do myself, so where would you recommend I go for either to analyze this or for a gearbox-rebuild in Melbourne?
thanks,
Patrick
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