Gear Stick Bias

[Guest]

My cousin is looking to get back into Porsche ownership, having had a couple of 924s a while ago, and has been to look at a 2.7 which has no spring in the gear stick, i.e. no bias to 3rd/4th. Does anyone have any experience of this and is it either an expensive thing to fix, or difficult to do oneself?
Cheers,

Graham

 

[NeilW]

Depends what you mean by no bias. Does the gear stick flop side to side with no resistance or do you have to push it back to centre against resistance.

One of my cars behaved like the later when I bought it. I cured this by greasing the gear linkage on the transaxle while an assistant moved the gear stick.

If it's just plain floppy then this raises a new set of questions such as does it go into gear? Is it loose in both planes left/right and forward/back?

 

[TTM]

The gear shift horizontal rod that links with the gear linkage may be very worn (high mileage ?) or the "stiffening linkage" on the gearbox may be broken.

 

[dave993cars]

Hi Guys

Mine wouldn't spring back to the neutral position, a good clean of all the gunk on the top of the gearbox linkage and a good grease solved the problem .

Dave S

 

[eastendr]

When I originally bought WUF back in 2000, the linkage would not spring at all. The is is a symptom of a partially seized rear linkage.

Ordinarily, there is a strong bias to 3/4 from both 1/2 and 5/R. When lubricating the rear linkage, use MOTORCYCLE CHAIN LUBE as it doesn't melt and come off with the heat from the exhaust or gearbox.

Much better to add a rear quick change linkage - it transforms the car - and only costs about the same as a Porsche genuine standard replacement..

Two other areas to look at for improvement.

The bottom of the gearlever itself has a round ball that's located in a white plastic 'cup' to act as the gearlever pivot. These can wear and also benefit from lubrication. Assess is from inside the car. Remove the gaiter and gearlever first.

The final area is the pivot pin worn by the linkage bar that connectes the middle of the gear lever to the rear gearbox linkage. This pin, which is an integral part of the gearlever, can wear oval over the gears and allow a lot of slop to creep in to the gearchange. Jon Mitchell at 9XX in Bournemouth does an exchange replacement service.

Do all three things above, and you will have a gearchange that has to be experienced to be believed. Done to both of my '44s and wouldn't have it any other way.

HTH

Rick.