What does it mean when gearstick is all floppy?
It just wont engage the gears or come out of gear. BY floppy i mean there is no notch to stick it in, all the notchiness has ceased, i just run the stick around the gears like the clutch was down and no nothces either. The spring return to the centre still works. SOrry if I have confused anyone, i did say I was a novice.
Why is the gearstick on my Ford Focus all floppy?
Cars done 150K, new clutch last year. just had MOT and service and the gearbox just went floppy. It’s stuck in what may be third gear and the gears tick just flops about. I have read in various places of a bias spring, but The AA man couldn’t shed any light on the problem and reckoned the problem was inside the gearbox.
Why do my gearsticks keep getting stuck in gear?
The linkages literally just clip onto ball joints and usually just need popping off (sometimes the cap needs to be pressed in to release a collar inside the linkage). Also worth checking are the points where the 2 cables run into their sleeves, these should be secure in their slots in order to keep the sleeves from moving around.
How did I get My gearstick out of my Clutch?
Phone the mechanic out, who got a younger guy to fit the clutch. Turns out one of the two selector cables coming from the gear stick, had slipped out of one of the plastic open ended connectors, [shaped like the letter C ] that went into the gear box. He put it back in and we could select gears.
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