Gear Lever Housing

NOTE: Component identifier numbers used in the following illustrations relate to specific steps in the procedures below.





Disassembly

NOTE: Dismantling includes entire gear lever housing with gear rod.

1. Disconnect the battery's negative cable.
2. In order to reach the gear lever housing and the gear rod, the left front seat, the side covers of the middle console and the middle console must be removed, refer to Body and Frame.
3. Remove the air duct.
4. Engage 4th gear.
5. Remove the plastic plug on the gearbox and insert locking pin tool No. 87 92 335, or equivalent, with the ring uppermost.
6. Remove from above the clamp which holds the gear rod in the linkage on the gearbox.
7. Engage 3rd gear so that the gear rod and the linkage part company.
8. Remove the screws which hold the gear lever housing, lift up and turn the housing.
9. Remove the two clamps which hold the ignition lock's cables in the gear lever housing.
10. Disconnect the terminal on the ignition lock.
11. Pull backwards and lift out the gear lever housing with gear rod.





Assembly
1. Check that 4th gear is locked with locking pin (with the ring uppermost) in the gearbox.
2. Place the gear lever housing with gear rod in the car and guide the gear rod into the bulk-head partition inlet.
3. Install the ignition lock's terminal.
4. Install the ignition lock's cables with two securing straps in the gear lever housing.
5. Install the gear lever housing with four screws.
6. Engage 4th gear and insert locking pin into the gear lever housing. The locking pin's ring should be down in the hole.
7. Tighten from above the nut on the clamp which holds the gear rod into the linkage on the gearbox to 19-23 Nm (13-17 ft. lbs.)
8. Remove the locking pin from the gearbox and install the plastic plug.
9. Remove the locking pin from the gear lever housing and try changing gear a few times.
10. Install the air duct.
11. Install middle console, middle console's side covers and front left seat.
12. Connect the battery's negative cable.