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Have made a rudimentary bush from a bit of diving stick, it’s hard polyurethane type material and fits very snugly over the ball. Will file it up neatly tomorrow and reassemble! Should do for a while and hopefully stop that bloody awful stick rattle

Original is some sort of nylon washer. A ring cut from a suitable size alkathene pipe warmed in hot water to soften enough to slip on could do the job and last some time.

Has anyone ever made a bush type thing for the lower gear lever ball like below in the pic, my gear lever hasn’t got one and this has been the source of ear splitting machine gun rattling , I’m thinking about a bit of pipe heated up and the...

I found the housing here https://www.lrparts.net/219714-gear-lever-housing-for-land-rover-series-fits-1949-1984.html?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADmOzNeG3EVbOyPjpdhC4y_NbwQ6k&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIlKa249PfjAMV6ohQBh10cDLeEAQYByABEgK6uvD_BwE Will do...

Yes clean it up and just a tad of grease in the selector cups. Stick is available new, housing may be hard to find. There is a series 3 stick and housing on the flea bay. S3 stick has one bend S2 stick has two.

Turns out the lever and housing have been bored out by some incompetent bellend sometime in the past resulting in the lever locating notch being enlarged by movement of the wrong fitting screw. So it’s out. Am going to get a new lever and...

Thanks Steve, that makes sense! The one that’s in mine has been home made at some point in the past I was getting hung up on the absence of a nut on the replacement I’ve ordered. All clear now !

No locknut on my spare

You are right I recon, different types of fittings over the series years. Mine fell out at one time. I reshaped the end of a cap head bolt to suit and loctite in place, still there.

Hmmm. They might be slow, noisy, etc etc but my series have saved my arse and my families over the years, series got the wife to hospital while having sprog 1 in thick snow when my new merc amg died, got us through flash floods in Spain and...

Ok that makes sense. It seems like the bit I’ve ordered from Craddocks doesn’t have a nut so I guess it goes in gets turned back like you say and loctite does the rest. Hopefully I’m not being entirely stupid 😬

The idea is the grub screw in the center is turned in until touching and then turned back a tad so as stick is free to move. While holding grub still with screwdriver lock nut is done up. Yes to loctite.

Ok I get it. Think mine is a homemade version which has never fitted right. My one is so loose it’ll come out on its own. When installing the new one, would it be wise to loctite the threads? Hmmmm…..

It's not designed to be tight, otherwise the lever wouldn't move. It purpose is to stop the gear lever twisting in its ball pivot.

Yes, it should be a grub screw, I think.

Hello chums, in an attempt to locate the source of a rattling gearstick I’ve discovered that this little screw on the side of the turret connecting to the lever is loose and won’t screw in tight. Am I right in thinking this is the lever locating...

Excellent, really useful. Need some of these.

It’s very sticky and seems mega water resistant, I used it on my old mustang to stick on a news set of door seals. It’s pretty removable too, I had to take the seals off to put in a new windscreen and they cut off through the tiger seal quite...

That's a really good idea, using tigerseal 👍

Had the same problem, had to cut them a bit to fit them stuck em in with Tigerseal. Never coming off. Did the front vent seals the same way, nae leaks and I live in the wettest part of the known universe.

I had a straight through on for a year only cos I was too tight to buy a pipe and I live in the middle of nowhere Anyway don’t do it, it’s a bastard racket, itll do your head in I had to wear chainsaw ear muffs to cope wi it after a month or two

Mine came from ‘ere https://www.famousfour.co.uk/new_parts/ff_part?part=31935

Just replaced my plugs and the difference is immense previously needed 3 or 4 long heats now goes after two short uns