Quick Shift Gear Hard To Put In First
#1
Posted 29 March 2017 - 07:47 PM
#2
Posted 29 March 2017 - 08:54 PM
Is this a new fitting? If yes remove it and fit the old one.
If you have had it for a while you could well have worn out the syncros due to the reduced travel and the possibility moving the gear syncros faster than they should be moved.
#3
Posted 29 March 2017 - 09:01 PM
#4
Posted 29 March 2017 - 09:02 PM
#5
Posted 29 March 2017 - 10:58 PM
They are not known as "Quick-Graunch" for nothing!
#6
Posted 30 March 2017 - 12:00 AM
I run them and love them.
While they can shift faster and happy to do so, I just like them because the travel of the stick is more 'civilised'. One can wear out or break a box just as easy with a stock shifter
Going back to the OP, if the clutch is working OK, then it's possible the gearbox is getting tired, but I wouldn't be too fast to blame the shifter for this.
#7
Posted 30 March 2017 - 08:50 AM
I run them and love them.
While they can shift faster and happy to do so, I just like them because the travel of the stick is more 'civilised'. One can wear out or break a box just as easy with a stock shifter
Going back to the OP, if the clutch is working OK, then it's possible the gearbox is getting tired, but I wouldn't be too fast to blame the shifter for this.
having sat in a Moke for the first time a few years ago I know why the travel reducing shifters are liked in Mokes.
#8
Posted 30 March 2017 - 08:22 PM
having sat in a Moke for the first time a few years ago I know why the travel reducing shifters are liked in Mokes.
Yes, I do have them in the Mokes, but, I also have them in the Minis too. I've been running these for probably about 8 years now.
#9
Posted 30 March 2017 - 08:25 PM
having sat in a Moke for the first time a few years ago I know why the travel reducing shifters are liked in Mokes.
Yes, I do have them in the Mokes, but, I also have them in the Minis too. I've been running these for probably about 8 years now.
Only 8 years! I binned mine 20 years ago. Or was that 21 years ago.
#10
Posted 30 March 2017 - 08:47 PM
Only 8 years! I binned mine 20 years ago. Or was that 21 years ago.
I put it off for a while due to the 'bad press' they'd received, but I feel the bad press is in no way at all justified. I have zero complaints about them and it often makes me wonder why the factory didn't adopt similar geometry for them in production.
Honestly, no matter how fast I have shifted with them, I have never been able to beat the Syncho. but then again, I do do full overhauls on the Gearboxes when I do them up. I've also found that they have had no effect on the life of the gearboxes either. As I say, zero complaints. Well, OK, one that they don't make one for a Moke! I have to bend the Mini one.
So, who's shifter did you have and why did you ditch it?
#11
Posted 30 March 2017 - 09:43 PM
The 1-3 and 2-4 gates are just too close.
Oh full blown crash box. On the rod type.
Mine old Skool remote. Just again gates too close. But again I do run a remote lock out lever.
Strange as when I ran the box in the back of the GTM with a self made shifter I had no issues at all but the shift was shorter but not narrower cut down stick.
#12
Posted 30 March 2017 - 10:53 PM
I've been using the poor man's version from Mini Spares. I haven't tried the KAD version.
I'll say that at first, I did find the Gates quite close, but it was really only a case of what I was previously used to. By the time I'd driven down the road with it that first time, I was used to it and by the time I'd driven back, loved it.
I guess with your own shifter in the GTM, you could 'adjust' it to what you like - just more work! I would think it a bit of a tricky item in the GTM since the shifter rod on the Gearbox would be pointing the wrong way.
#13
Posted 31 March 2017 - 05:11 PM
I don't have any issues in any of the other gears and to be honest I don't mind the gears closer. So I don't really want to change the box.
#14
Posted 31 March 2017 - 08:40 PM
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