182 stiff gear stick in neutral

[Jaack_uk]

Hi.
When the car is cold or does medium to short drives it’s fine. It on long drives and especially with the recent warm weather the gear stick is stiff in neutral and doesn’t return to the middle position.

 

[hipwell]

I bet it's the shifter ball in the shifter housing.

Disconnect the linkage and check that it's not actually the gearbox selector been stiff, which I highly doubt, but worth checking.

Maybe time to upgrade to a taboo stiff shift or a PM's shifter?

 

[Jaack_uk]

I bet it's the shifter ball in the shifter housing.

Disconnect the linkage and check that it's not actually the gearbox selector been stiff, which I highly doubt, but worth checking.

Maybe time to upgrade to a taboo stiff shift or a PM's shifter?

Who would I contact to buy these products. I’ve only had the car 2 weeks

 

[hipwell]

Meant to say yanoo stiff shift, he's a member on here called yanoo.

Pure Motorsport is the best shifter money can buy, it's a bit raw, but well worth it, can be bought from pure Motorsport. It's a full shifter from the gearbox to your hand.

 

[Louis]

Get under the car and check that the spring is in place on the selector. In top of the below photo.

 

[hipwell]

That spring won't cause the lever to go stiff, I removed it on my last 172 as it broke, all it did was make the shifter not spring back to central as quickly in neutral.

The ops video looks clearly seized to me

 

[Louis]

That spring won't cause the lever to go stiff, I removed it on my last 172 as it broke, all it did was make the shifter not spring back to central as quickly in neutral.

The ops video looks clearly seized to me

If running a standard plastic ball there's no reason for it to seize up. On the BMS and other similar shifters the standard ball is stiffened up and it still centres fine.

 

[NBG182]

Mine did this when I bought it, moving the shifter side to side was stiff and sometimes squeaked, especially when hot.

I took apart the shifter linkage at the gearbox end, removing the linkage pictured at the top of the image below.

One end of it attaches into the little white bushing on the gearbox, pictured (disassembled) in Louis' picture. The other end attaches to the selector on the gearbox under a rubber boot.

Remove this rubber boot (which will probably split, rpd sell them) and clean out and regrease the interfaces between the linkage and the gearbox/selector. Might as well install the new white bushing while you're there.

This solved the problem for me, now the shifter is always nice and free. If you don't have an undertray, get one installed just to help keep extra crap out of the shift linkage.

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[M90SR]

Could be this synchro spring, 7700110500 has worn out?

 

[hipwell]

Disconnect the linkage once it goes stiff and that will show you if it's at the box end or the hand end