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deefer
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gearstick on 2.3 manual
« on: Jan 11th, 2006, 9:58am » |
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Hi,
My 2.3 manual's gearstick is a bit on the sloppy side, any sensible ways to tighten it up a bit ?
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #2 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 2:52pm » |
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Dave
He's got a manual.
I must admit gear selection is not as slick on Scorp manual as some other Fords that I have driven, anybody got any ideas why that might be? (Apart from old age on my part  )
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #3 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 3:46pm » |
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on Jan 11th, 2006, 9:58am, deefer wrote:Hi,
My 2.3 manual's gearstick is a bit on the sloppy side, any sensible ways to tighten it up a bit ?
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Mine seems to be also like that, It has a long travel from right to left. Don't mind it so much, the thing is that it should change nice, mine sometimes when it's verry cold outside kind of refuses to enter in 1-st and/ second for a few miles. I think it defenetly needs and oil change
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #4 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 3:49pm » |
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Sorry wrong link , here is the maunual gearbox data
http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/mantrans.htm
I have put my specs on now 
It definitely is an AGE thing so I am informed!
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #5 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 4:14pm » |
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Cheers Dave Happy New Year
I think we may have an interesting theme here, there is nothing really mentioned about ways of improving the shift at the lever end in terms of throw or general baulking, anybody got any bright ideas other than swapping for an auto or grafting in a new generation sixspeed box? 
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #6 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 5:34pm » |
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Six speed sounds nice but way too expensive for me 
On topic:
Maybe all that play in the gear lever is because of worn links. If i take of my wood efect cover and look under it, and under the rubber protections, there's a lot of mess, losen rings, losen bits of ....and a lot of stuff. That's how i'v got the car, don't realy know what should be there. It will worth a look to see what's there in your case.
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #7 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 5:46pm » |
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The following link takes you to a site dedicated to the RS and Cosworth Escorts which apparently also use the MT75 box, as you will see they have a view on the box and why it is clunky
http://www.wrc-cosworth.org/tech/drivetrain/drivetrain.html
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #8 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 9:41pm » |
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Now you did it Geoff ! With that link, browsing the site i had steped over the water injection i want one for my non turbo 2.3 i think that will defenetly increase mpg
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Re: gearstick on 2.3 manual
« Reply #9 on: Jan 11th, 2006, 10:29pm » |
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Yes but if your box is strange now think what it will be like if the car has more power, that and you will have to keep stopping to top up the water
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