99 Octavia gearshift

[bc30se]

Buy a new lever from TOPRAN, it is of bad quality and thanks to it it fits very tight on the spline.

 

[CRB]

 

[CRB]

Buy a new lever from TOPRAN, it is of bad quality and thanks to it it fits very tight on the spline.

Lost in translation, I think.

?Topran is good or bad? I was just about to look for that lever, the splines on the tower look good, I think they must be hardened.

 

[bc30se]

This is the one you have
http://www.czesciwsieci.pl/czesc/Ze..._1U2/18/575/1904/7908/1996/11909/10249-111567

TOPRAN 111 567

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Topran is enough, it provides a tight fit on the old spline, I am using it on my restored 02a and it works very well. If not, buy original VW but the spline will be very precise so you can get some play from the beginning because your spline is a little bit worn now. OEM number is 1J0 711 051B

 

[steveo3002]

dunno how involved you want to get , i had that shifter on a g60 golf , i got so few up adjusting and tinkering with it i found out you can swap the tower and cables /gearstick from the mk4 era vw's , needs swapping over as a whole but works very nice if you can find it for okay money

 

[CRB]

The mk4 swap is what I was looking at but it means a lot of work, removing stuff from underneath etc.

I have a part coming on Saturday, but am keeping an eye on ebay for the mk4 parts.

If I get everything working on Saturday, it will give me extra time to sort the swap parts.

 

[steveo3002]

its not too bad mate...easier than trying to make that other stuff work

 

[bc30se]

No need for swapping to mk4 solution, the old type selector is just as good, the time it worked properly only proves how robust it is, I have all the parts new on the brown gearbox I showed, the gears work beautifully... and on my old passat the first tower survived for something like 400k km, you need anything better than that? Forget mk4, repair yours, you will be fine.

PS.
there is very little improvement in construction of the mk4 type, the only reason they work better is because they are newer and not that battered.

 

[CRB]

there is very little improvement in construction of the mk4 type, the only reason they work better is because they are newer and not that battered.

Much easier to set at neutral too.

Hopefully, Saturday, fingers crossed.

 

[steveo3002]

cant be easier than that?

 

[CRB]

That is the newer type. Mine needs two special tools, and not just a pair of 5mm diameter rods.
http://workshop-manuals.com/volkswa...djusting_gear_selector_mechanism_up_to_05.99/

 

[steveo3002]

yeah thats what im saying...make life easy for yourself

ive had my golf sinse 99 and pretty much constantly messed about with the linkage and gubbins , i can honestly say fitting the mk4 stuff was one of the best upgrades ive done for the sake of £40

sure the old stuff worked in a1 condition but if it was so great vw would still be using it and they aint , the stuff i fitted to my car was a better design with less places to have slack and play

 

[steveo3002]

oh if you play around with the orig set up...be aware they should go into 3rd if you push the stick straight forward from neutral , theres an ajuster on the gearstick for that , needs to be right before messing with the cables

 

[CRB]

Only ten days and everything is done bar a tiny bit of adjusting. 1st, 2nd and reverse are a little notchy but all gears are present and correct. I had not realised that there was a flat on the tower shaft and selector arm. Had I realised I could have centre-popped the life out of the arm and fitted the new one at my leisure. As it turned out my new arm arrived this morning before 10.00am and was effectively done in half an hour. I did centre-pop the flat so I could see it and it did give a bit more resistance on assembly.

Thank you for all the, as usual, helpful comments and suggestions.