cant select reverse

glasgowjim · Post by **glasgowjim** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 10:51 am

Had increasing difficulty selecting reverse now its gone altogether.. The gear stick was very wobbly so replaced the entire stick assembly with a nice tight stick rejoined but still cant get reverse. Its driving me nuts as I the gears dont grind and work well apart from this.

Any ideas as its driving me up the wall (bad memories of messing around for ages with an S40).

Iroll480 · Post by **Iroll480** » Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:38 pm

Did you also change the bushings (3x) in the coupling underneat the gearstick to the box? Worn bushes where the cause in mine 480.

glasgowjim · Post by **glasgowjim** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:32 pm

feel like a right tube !
changed the rear discs and calipers yesterday and today bleed the rear brakes using the wife's right foot! (eat your heart out hannibal lecter

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so the next on list todo was have another go at the reverse. took the car up driveway parked on street opened bonnet just to look at he engine don know why but it was a random thing to do. Well the bloody enegine was up at one side and shifted hard against the offside wing! how the hell did I not notice it before or did this just happen? The front nearside engine mount sheared in 2 with a 2inch space beween the 2 parts so that put an end to messing about with the gears.

As they said in tropic thunder my mistake was to go full tard

and guess what this is my winter holiday week!

glasgowjim · Post by **glasgowjim** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 10:09 pm

got a replacement spare front mount Ã‚Â£10 so hey off we go!

hungryjack10 · Post by **hungryjack10** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 4:17 pm

just bought a 480 and have trouble selecting reverse but also 1st is getting a bit stiff. is it a big job?
how do i do it?
best

muddyfox470 · Post by **muddyfox470** » Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:21 am

glasgowjim wrote: so the next on list todo was have another go at the reverse. took the car up driveway parked on street opened bonnet just to look at he engine don know why but it was a random thing to do. Well the bloody enegine was up at one side and shifted hard against the offside wing! how the hell did I not notice it before or did this just happen? The front nearside engine mount sheared in 2 with a 2inch space beween the 2 parts so that put an end to messing about with the gears.

How had I missed this post! I'm amazed it worked at all with the whole engine shifting across. Lucky man

[I know it's all fairly old news!]