Hi again all!
Please forgive me for being a thick bugger, and being unable to read any of the replies that folk mayve given me previously, but Im REALLY STRUGGLING to get the hang of this Forum thing??!
Anyway, as Ive already stated, there is NOTHING WHATSOVEVER wrong with my gearstick cables/linkages, as Ive already 'popped' them off the ball-sockets, at BOTH ENDS, on BOTH CABLES, and there is no issue whtasoever, they push/pull just fine!!
I have narrowed the issue down to the following: Standing infront of Punto bonnet, looking down into engine: The cable/linkage that attches to the 'upper' section of the gearbox, where it attached to a 2/3'' 'arm' type thing, that is meant to move from side to side.
The 'lower' cable/linkage attaches to a totally different attachment, that not only moves from left to right, but when it is in the 'middle' position, it also moves 'inwards'..ie: towards the engine, and it is ONLY THEN, when the upper cable/linkage, will move from side to side, otherwise it wont move at all...
So please people!...stop mentioning cables, etc. IT IS DEFINITELY NOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE CABLES, it is wholly to do with where the cable is attached to the gearbox/engine, and 'why' that arm-thing just will not move?!
Also, the cluth seems to be working JUST FINE too!!??
Any ideas now people??!!
Please forgive me for being a thick bugger, and being unable to read any of the replies that folk mayve given me previously, but Im REALLY STRUGGLING to get the hang of this Forum thing??!
Anyway, as Ive already stated, there is NOTHING WHATSOVEVER wrong with my gearstick cables/linkages, as Ive already 'popped' them off the ball-sockets, at BOTH ENDS, on BOTH CABLES, and there is no issue whtasoever, they push/pull just fine!!
I have narrowed the issue down to the following: Standing infront of Punto bonnet, looking down into engine: The cable/linkage that attches to the 'upper' section of the gearbox, where it attached to a 2/3'' 'arm' type thing, that is meant to move from side to side.
The 'lower' cable/linkage attaches to a totally different attachment, that not only moves from left to right, but when it is in the 'middle' position, it also moves 'inwards'..ie: towards the engine, and it is ONLY THEN, when the upper cable/linkage, will move from side to side, otherwise it wont move at all...
So please people!...stop mentioning cables, etc. IT IS DEFINITELY NOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE CABLES, it is wholly to do with where the cable is attached to the gearbox/engine, and 'why' that arm-thing just will not move?!
Also, the cluth seems to be working JUST FINE too!!??
Any ideas now people??!!