help needed!!
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ORIGINAL: xenon
ORIGINAL: Mark Bennett
As Fen said, the part is only £7 or so.
GT-One are v.good. Not sure they would have this in stock but you never know []
that's for the linkage arm - the missing nylon sleeve is on the spindle section. I tried a new linkage arm on mine, but with no nylon sleeve it just fell off too.
Weird, I recall the sleeves being part of the arm (I mean the cups that are on each end of the arm- is that what you mean?). It's about 8 years since I had to do this on mine though, so I'm probably mistaken!
It happened to me about 2 months after I bought the car, and the previous owner had just tied it all together with a huge ball of elastic bands! I'm going down the motorway one rainy night and suddenly the drivers side wiper stops working [&:][
Apologies if I misled at all [&:]
The ball is a plated sphere attached to the mechanicsm, the cup is part of the linkage and in black nylon. Runoff from the screen gets on it because the plastic scuttle cover is designed for LHD cars and doesn't fit RHD properly. In that runoff is grit which abrades both the nylon and the plating on the metal. Usually the nylon fails first but eventually the ball will be lozenge shaped after the plating has been worn through and even a new cup won't grip it.
The arm with the cup is £7 or so, the whole mechanism (including new arms) is £70 or so - both plus the dreaded. Fitting a whole mechanism isn't too difficult but you need to mark the position the crank from the motor sits at on the splines before you take off your motor to swap it across or it will take ages to get the park position to the at the bottom. Fitting the arm is just a matter of popping it over the ball either end - use force as you won't break it. Note the inner end isn't a cup so much as a ring.
xenon
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Certainly the new linkage arm I tried had no nylon 'gripper' in it - just sprung steel cup pressed into the bar - and it fell off as easily as the old one did.
Accordingly, my fix was the only solution, other than buying a complete new frame - maybe it made the ball less 'lozenge' shaped. I'll send Chris some sleeving anyway and hopefully it will fix his as it did mine.
It also makes me wonder if perhaps the design was changed during the production run, because there was definately no nylon in the cup on the new arm I tried. It's also interesting you mention that the cover was designed for LHD cars, however PET lists both a RHD & LHD version. Perhaps only on earlier cars it was the same? My cover covers the linkage anyway.
Similarly I have replaced a few linkages and all of the arms have had black nylon cups on one end and black nylon rings on the other and the cups don't come out of the arm - I even had a whole new mechanism for my S2 cab a couple of years ago and it was the same. I'm now thoroughly confused by your description of your setup. I have a spare arm in my garage if a photograph will help anyone.
xenon
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Anyway, I'm sure you're right, Fen, you have owned and presumably worked on, many more 944s than I - however, my fix does work!!
As you say - the 'cup' does not come out of the arm as it is pressed in, but the cup on the new arm I recently purchased was bereft of any nylon.
That would explain why I remember not being able to see the linkage on mine (and therefore not spotting the huge ball of rubber bands helding it all together when I bought the car!)
I did mention this at a meeting at the beginning of the year when all the 944's had thier bonnets open and the linkage was plainly visible - I wondered how on earth I had manageed to miss it - and also how I remembered it being completely covered!
My memory isn't so bad as I thou... (mmm, huh, what was I saying now?)

ORIGINAL: xenon
Black nylon cups on one end and nylon rings on the other - suggesting that there is some sort of nylon sleeve (or ring) on the 'ball' end. I thought the battery on the S2 was in the boot in both LHD and RHD.
Anyway, I'm sure you're right, Fen, you have owned and presumably worked on, many more 944s than I - however, my fix does work!!
As you say - the 'cup' does not come out of the arm as it is pressed in, but the cup on the new arm I recently purchased was bereft of any nylon.
The cup is made of nylon isn't it? I certainly believe that it is and that's the only nylon anywhere. The other part is a shiny ball with no plastic whatsoever.
xenon
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xenon
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