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Fiat 126 Chat => Fiat 126 Mechanical Problem Solving => Topic started by: gnash on April 09, 2006, 09:56:36 PM

Title: Gear stick spring?
Post by: gnash on April 09, 2006, 09:56:36 PM

Evening all,

This afternoon (driving through heavy sleet in the Mourne Mountains) the gear stick stopped springing back to the 3rd-and-4th-gear side.  Is there a spring that's come adrift?  Also the gear stick has always rotated freely (not a major inconvenience).

Thanks in advance for any help...

austin

Title: Gear stick spring?
Post by: paul harbinson. on April 10, 2006, 07:55:10 AM

Right fella give me a ring.Here I was at Nendrum monastic site down by Castle Espie,then had a lovely lunch at Daft Eddie's.What were the Mourne's like yesterday bet it would have foundered ya :smt119.If I remember right if you take the centre console out and the cover's under the carpet there is a rat tailed coil spring that wrap's round the gear lever allowing the lever to go to the centre position.

Title: Gear stick spring?
Post by: gnash on April 10, 2006, 10:08:39 AM

Thanks Paul!  

I'll give that a look.  I've gotta get in there to fix the heating lever cable too.  I'd temporarily set it to always hot, but that could get a bit toasty if we ever get a summer. :oops: I'll give you a ring later for a chat...