Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:09:58 -0500
From: Michael Hatton <mhatton@compt.com>
To: lro@koan.team.net
Subject: Re: [lro] S3 gearlever to S2A?
Reply-To: lro@land-rover.team.net
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 Solihull@aol.com wrote:
>> Too bad. Seems like years ago, when the nylon bush on the bottom of the
> shifter on yer basic series three failed, you ordered a series two shifter,
>Wha! There's supposed to be a nylon bush there?! Well that could explain
things :)
My SIII's original shifter had a sort of molded hard rubbery ball on the
end. The ball broke away after four or five years, and it was very
disconcerting. The knob machined on the end of the shifter itself was very
small, so small, in fact, that it could slip between the slots on the
shifting mechanism going from second to third but not shove the rods home.
The result was that the lever would be in third, the transmisison would be
in neutral, and there seemed to be no way to get the lever back into
neutral. I discovered this on my way to work one day in traffic. Some
frantic jerking on the shift lever caused it to slip back into neutral.
I figured out the problem, and realized there was no practical way to fix
the original gear lever. So I ordered a new one, and my supplier
recommended the SIIa lever which has a larger machined ball with the O-ring
slot. While I waited for it, I had to be careful to shift very precisely
with the original lever to avoid the
shifter-in-gear-transmission-in-neutral situation again. So shifting from
second to third meant pushing the lever straight forward to neutral, then
all the way to the right, then straight forward to third.
The SIIa shifter eliminates the potential for this problem once and for
all. However, it's been my experience that the O-ring in the slot doesn't
last very long. However, my shift lever doesn't wiggle and rattle (much)
with the O-ring gone, so I haven't bothered to replace the ring. The shift
ball has been without an O-ring for some 20-plus years with no problems, so
I guess it's not a critical part. But the molded ball on the end of the
SIII lever is,
so if you can switch to an SIIa lever, you'll be better off. Or have
someone weld up a larger ball on the end of the SIII lever. That would
work, too.
Off to Defender-land.....
________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle, WA
marin.faure@boeing.com
faurecm@earthlink.net
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