Gear stick bias.

[Rincewind]

Just trial fitting the gear stick and (it doesn’t have the little spring and plunger fitted) having put it in position there doesn’t appear to be any bias across the gate, normally there is a spring that bias’s the gear lever to the 3-4 plane so when you move from second it automatically pushes across the gate to line up with third. Is this correct or have I got something missing or out of adjustment? Thanks Keith

[NeilR]

No bias spring on a Stag gearbox, or any other Triumph gearbox I can remember.

The little spring & plunger is just an anti rattle device.

[Rincewind]

Thanks Neil, that’s what I thought, just feels a bit odd. Only being a four speed I suppose it doesn’t really need it but so used to modern five and six speed boxes with a bias I thought I would check before trying to fit it with the little spring and plunger as I don’t think I want to be doing that twice .

[NeilR]

It would be pointless on a 4 speed.

[mole42]

Thanks Neil, that’s what I thought, just feels a bit odd. Only being a four speed I suppose it doesn’t really need it but so used to modern five and six speed boxes with a bias I thought I would check before trying to fit it with the little spring and plunger as I don’t think I want to be doing that twice .

No bias on the gear-lever, you put it into the slot you want! I have a horrid Mazda6 with a silly 6 speed gearbox, that’s biased to 3/4 slot but it’s very confusing.

To fit the anti-rattle spring just pack the hole in the gearstick with grease, put the spring and plunger in and carefully insert into the gate.

[Rincewind]

To fit the anti-rattle spring just pack the hole in the gearstick with grease, put the spring and plunger in and carefully insert into the gate.

I hope it is going to be that easy ! Gear change is very positive in action, needs a bit of grease just to smooth out the action but hopefully will be nice to use.