Two types of Gear levers for BW35

Hello Ian . Welcome to P6 ownership.
45plus year car and although extremely well engineered , little things tend to give up.
The gear lever being floppy will indead be a broken spherical bush.
I lost my car over a small retaining wall a few months back .
The "bush'' gave up and the hand break was not entirely on. It dropped out of park and went for a self drive down a steep slope. No damage except my ego to the amusement of the neighbours.
The spherical bushes are available from the "guys" on line .
Im 68 now and too have difficulty crawling under the car as the selectors from the gear lever to the g/box are in an awkward place .
To expediate its removal , i would have the new bush to hand and dis assemble the cock pit parts. ie remove the plastic grill in front of the gear lever console. there are two nutss under the ash trays. A screw is under the front of the rubber hand brake cover .Unscrew the gear lever knob and lift the console off.
Removing these parts will save your mechanic breaking stuff when 'finding out' how to remove things on top.
Drive to your mechanic with the new bush and he can do the rest.
Hope this helps
Not a big job but never the less , essential.
I drove around with a floppy gear lever and paid the price for not getting it serviced.
others on here may see Ive overlooked something
Go well
Gerald
 
Thanks Harvey, this has only just happened so I think, because it is not too bad yet, that I can do that run. I should not have to use the lever once under way. I just have to find the right workshop now. Interestingly my original car covered a huge distance without problems whilst this one has only 64k kms on the clock.
 
Thanks for that Gerald. I have owned 2 of these cars, this one for 30 years, purely as a hobby and its predecessor as a daily driver, for about 6 years before that. Having never experienced this problem before, I never had to look at the mechanism. Now I must find a parts supplier and get it sent here, That is not so easy in this messed up country. I am sorry you ‘lost’ your car, is that permanently or just a figure of speech? I had just reversed my car out of the garage, left it idling and got out to wipe the screen when it slowly backed into a wall just behind it. Fortunately it was a dry wall which took the hit without damaging the car. Can you or Harvey please give me the part number of the bush. I am 81 by the way, so I have a better excuse than you.
 
Thanks again Harvey, as my car is one of the last assembled in SA in late 73, I think I can safely assume that this is the correct part. You are a mine of information.
 
Ian
If you cannot get any of the suppliers to send you that bush because of your location let me know via PM on here. I will buy one and send it to you.

Mark
 
Wins has this part listed below, sounds right but p/no is different to the one suggested by Harvey. The Greys offer the same p/no as Harvey. They both claim it is genuine, any coments.

Gearstick Spherical seating bush (has small pin going into it) GENUINE - 571933
 
BW35 can be either. The early type has the stainless steel slider that moves with the gearlever, the later type has the nylon brushes each side that the gearlever moves through.
 
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