Good afternoon all, I've noticed on my car that changing gears is fairly sloppy and not as nice as I'd want it to be.

I've found most of the slop to be coming from the shifter.

Video related:

Ignore the grease, that was my doing a while ago.

Does anyone have any good guides on how to strip this down and rebuild it? If so, where can I get replacement parts for it? 

Thanks.

whole new shifter assy.....

 

6Q0711050B but not cheap............Item 13

 

https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/fabia/fab/2013-697/7/711-711030/#14

 

theres is a "few" bits on the assy you could replace, whether that would fix it, who knows. item 14 which is the bearing shell, so could be the culprit

 

https://skoda.7zap.com/en/cz/fabia/fab/2013-697/7/711-711030/#14

 

https://www.skoda-parts.com/spare-part/6q0711699-bearing-shell-37674.html

 

https://www.google.com/search?q=6Q0711699&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiyl9bH9sP4AhVC0RoKHZqnA5gQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=6Q0711699&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQ6BAgjECdQtQ9YtQ9g9hVoAHAAeACAAU2IAY8BkgEBMpgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=uIu0YrLbFMKia5rPjsAJ&bih=850&biw=1760&client=firefox-b-d&hl=en#imgrc=RRnaJgXjKQay2M

 

translated russian page......replacing part above.....

 

https://www-drive2-ru.translate.goog/l/534666667137959228/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

 

 

Edited 23 June, 20223 yr by UrbanPanzer

Thank you, I think I could get away with replacing just the shell. From what I can feel that is where most of the play is coming from. I'd rather rebuild the one in the car since swapping it out looks like a lot more work.

I'll go into the dealers tomorrow and order that part, thank you.

its alot more work to rebuild! to get to the shifter internals you have to drop it and remove it from the car. I had mine out to change the linkages when they went. Not something that can be done without dropping at all.

Just as an aside you shouldn't use copper anti seize compound as a lubricant at all let alone for plastic parts like that gearshift mechanism.

Use silicon grease for plastics, regular grease for metals and anti-seize for stopping fastenings seizing due to corrosion.

i wonder if the golf mkiv shifter would work in a fabia. If so one could get a shifter from the wreckers and then do a DAP or dieselgeek bushing kit on it to make it real nice.

3 hours ago, sepulchrave said:

Just as an aside you shouldn't use copper anti seize compound as a lubricant at all let alone for plastic parts like that gearshift mechanism.

Use silicon grease for plastics, regular grease for metals and anti-seize for stopping fastenings seizing due to corrosion.

Didn't realise that, thanks for pointing it out. 

I have silicon grease in the shed and all so I'll use it to regrease everything.

3 hours ago, Truls84 said:

i wonder if the golf mkiv shifter would work in a fabia. If so one could get a shifter from the wreckers and then do a DAP or dieselgeek bushing kit on it to make it real nice.

Mk4 golf shifter is identical iirc to the one in the mk1 fabia, atleast looks identical to the shifter in my mk1.

Mk2 is a bit different, more akin to a mk6 golf shifter iirc. Can't say whether or not a mk4 style shifter could be retrofitted.

 

I ordered a bearing shell from the dealers so may as well change it out, for the sake of a tenner it's worth a gamble.

I think it's funny how my montes shifter has so much more play in it compared to my mk1 which in comparison feels much tighter.

 

I think there may be enough access for me to remove just the bearing shell in situ. If I have to drop all out then I'd be as well to buy a brand new unit to replace all with.

Hi all, I got the bearing yesterday from the dealers and fitted it this evening.

Its actually not too hard, the Drive2RU link given above is pretty accurate and was a nice reference when doing it.

-You do need to absolutely destroy the old bearing to remove it. Jam a flat screwdriver in and twist until a load of plastic breaks off, repeat until it comes out. 

Just be aware there is a small rubber band you need to swap over

You'll need to remove the gear knob  which on mine was simply turning a little clip sideways.

I cleaned much of the copperslip off and used silicon grease instead

The plastic bearing slips over the top of the gearstick easily and clips in.

And that's basically it.

Took me an hour and fixed 99% of the side to side slop on mine.

For the sake of €11 from the dealers, well worth doing, was a lot cheaper than a new shifter and honestly fairly easy to do.

For reference, this shifter is similar to the one found in Mk6 on golfs, its NOT the same as a mk1 fabia which is like a Mk4 Golf shifter.

If anyone in the future is having this sort of trouble, this worked for me. Hopefully these photos are of some help to someone.

Thanks all for the advice.

 

Edited 6 July, 20223 yr by DieselMonte
Same paragraph twice