Soldato
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- 12 Feb 2006
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One of my vans (vivaro 09) had the gear linkage cable break (the ball had worn out the clip and it just kept popping off) about 5 years back. Managed to get it to stick on 2nd gear and drive to someone who put a cable tie around it to get me to a garage. They replaced the gear linkage cable, however the gear changing from that point onwards was tough, especially first and reverse gear. They took another look, got it better, but still, first isn't great, and reverse too.
It was good enough to guv eto my guys to use, however I'm back to using this van again for a short while, and now it's colder weather, I'm seeing how hard it can be to get into first gear. I have to start again, back to neutral, raise clutch etc, and repeat until I goes in, or more often, the soltion is to lift the clutch partly and it slips into gear.
Now the van is pretty healthy other than this. It may be replaced in the coming year or so, but I'd ideally like to fix, especially as selling will be harder due to this issue.
Is there anything that can be done? What I don't understand is why a gear linkage cable change would cause this, given I thought it's literally just a cable between your stick and the bar that selects gears.
I also don't understand why the cold makes it harder to get into first/reverse gear. The rest fly in beautifully fine.
We had the clutch changed about 3.5 years ago. Made no difference.
It was good enough to guv eto my guys to use, however I'm back to using this van again for a short while, and now it's colder weather, I'm seeing how hard it can be to get into first gear. I have to start again, back to neutral, raise clutch etc, and repeat until I goes in, or more often, the soltion is to lift the clutch partly and it slips into gear.
Now the van is pretty healthy other than this. It may be replaced in the coming year or so, but I'd ideally like to fix, especially as selling will be harder due to this issue.
Is there anything that can be done? What I don't understand is why a gear linkage cable change would cause this, given I thought it's literally just a cable between your stick and the bar that selects gears.
I also don't understand why the cold makes it harder to get into first/reverse gear. The rest fly in beautifully fine.
We had the clutch changed about 3.5 years ago. Made no difference.