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(Message started by: smiler on Feb 6^th, 2008, 11:39pm)

Title: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by smiler on Feb 6^th, 2008, 11:39pm

Hi my gear stick has gone all flopy we think its a linkage or selector any advice would be welcome cant select any gears

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by Chieftain on Feb 7^th, 2008, 7:05am

Wow just been throught this (see my posts) Is the stick very smooth to move? if so I would look underneath at the linkage, several weak points, check all the clips are holding the lingage together/on pivot points. There are two rods and a crank, the crnak ism ounted on a bracket that sometime fractures or in my case the bottom rod which is a ball joint had seized causing the bracket bottom to snap. repalced with new crnak and all well. If it is this it can be done without removing anything Just!!!

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by Highlander on Feb 7^th, 2008, 2:40pm

Rob's is an auto, is your diesel an auto?
There were only a few made and they are quite rare.

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=Problems;action=display;num=1201590734

If its a manual then you should be able to dismantle it from inside the car and find the problem easily enough

http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/manual/manualtrans/MT75Overhaul.pdf

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by smiler on Feb 7^th, 2008, 6:02pm

HI highlander we have looked under the car, which is manual
The flat quite substantial forging has broken we are not quite shore how you come in from the top basically how do take the gear stick and gaiter out and access the problem

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by Snoopy on Feb 7^th, 2008, 6:20pm

If you remove the trim around the gear stick you should be able to locate the fixing/holding mechanism . I have not actuallt seen the manual version and there is nothing in the Workshop manual to tell us how to do it.
Basically you are having to look at the remote gear changing linkage ... which stays in the car when the gear box is removed.

As to the large flat forging that has broken is it possible to post a picture .. it tells a thousand words.

Have a look at THIS (paras18 & 19) (http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/manual/manualtrans/MT75TDi.pdf) and see if it explains it a little more... the whole of the workshop manual for the MT75 gearbox is HERE (http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/mantrans.htm)

HTH

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by smiler on Feb 9^th, 2008, 9:23am

Hi after taking off all the plastic housing for the hand brake and the gaiter for the gear sift down to the white bit of nylon where the gearshift ball joint sits there's a gaiter under which covers the gear linkage the rod has broken on the flat bit that goes into the transmission and its still in gear, I'm not shore how to proceed any help appreciated

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by Snoopy on Feb 9^th, 2008, 11:14am

POST or send a picture

Title: Re: 2.5TDI Gear STick all flopy and no gears
Post by smiler on Feb 19^th, 2008, 3:23pm

Hi my engineer came back from Cornwall we had to lower the transmission to get access to the gear linkage, which was broken right at the end the goes into the gearbox,
Had to be welded with a little bit of steal reinforcement cost me a hundred but with out Andy I would be still stationary as ford no longer service this part loved to have sent picture but this part was in a place a good picture was impossible should have taken one when part was out but as I’m a taxi driver I was just happy tobe on the road again thanks for all suggestions and diagram of under transmission ded handy