Technical OMP gear stick fitting help

[ycming]

Hey guys,

Not an idea how this goes in, here is the picture:







does the rubber bit of the orginial gear stick just come off? and is the plastic shaft threaded? As the OMP adaptor are threaded inside.

Thanks
Ming

 

[Brooky]

Right, what i did was cut the knob off, file the ribbed bit down and screw the adaptor on. I did it to try and get the the stick as short as possible

You can see how much plastic i left on the above picture

 

[ycming]

ah if i needed to start cutting things up gonna sell the fooker is pure nice as well!!

Guess cutting is the only way and no way i can remove just the gear nob?

Thanks
Ming

 

[Brooky]

gonna sell it? your crazy, just go down to the scrappy and get the plastic knob bit and chop that up if you dont want to chop yours up

 

[custard]

Hey guys,

Not an idea how this goes in, here is the picture:







does the rubber bit of the orginial gear stick just come off? and is the plastic shaft threaded? As the OMP adaptor are threaded inside.

Thanks
Ming

not found the guides section yet

https://www.fiatforum.com/cinquecen...t-gearknob-cinquecento-seicento-sporting.html

 

[ycming]

Yeah totally missed it, don't know how i could of, because fifat forum is so well structured!

Ming

 

[custard]

never been on the fifat forum

 

[ycming]

never been on the fifat forum

Yeah sorry that's another forum, this one is much better especially "trying" to get useful messages across.

Ming

 

[custard]

ooh get her
been here since 2006,the guides been here since 2007 so if thats not easy enough for you,
then feel free to find somewhere thats a bit more simplistic in its layout for you

 

[rallycinq]

I guess Custard still isn't getting enough sleep.

Cheers

SPD

 

[mrcinquecento]

ooh get her
been here since 2006,the guides been here since 2007 so if thats not easy enough for you,
then feel free to find somewhere thats a bit more simplistic in its layout for you

a tad harsh?

 

[AppleSei]

A search would also have thrown up a thread by 'newboi' in which pictures of where to cut the gearknob etc are shown

3 years on here and not checking guides is a bit of a newbie error

 

[beecon]

Newboi's pics are included in custard's guide.
So, for a non sporting 1108 Sei, I simply cut off the old one at the preferred height and put the new one on.

How do generic gearknobs normally attach to the gearstick? By threads, grub screws etc? Or do you just squirt some epoxy into the knob and shove it on?

 

[fingers99]

How do generic gearknobs normally attach to the gearstick? By threads, grub screws etc? Or do you just squirt some epoxy into the knob and shove it on?

For the majority it's by grubscrew. On the non-Sporting's you don't need the adaptor, although it's nice to have something for the top of the gaiter to fix to.

 

[beecon]

that piece of information was so basic that none of the guides I've read even mentioned it - thanks.

 

[ycming]

I'll found a old broken shaft, but it is broken to far down, so the golden bits of the gear shaft hits the omp nob at the top.

Does anyone see any problem, if i were to grind a bit of the gold shaft off ?

Thanks
ming

 

[Brooky]

Does anyone see any problem, if i were to grind a bit of the gold shaft off ?

Thanks
ming

Well i did abit of grinding and this is what happened to my shaft, so i have no problems with you grinding it abit

 

[rallycinq]

I have an alloy gear lever top on the rallycar with a seperate blob of plastic to operate the reverse detent, so yes, grind away.

Cheers

SPD

 

[ycming]

hmmm will i end up setting fire to the car ~~~~

If u see headline " yellow car on fire that'd me"!!!

Cheers guys!

Ming

 

[Brooky]

take the shaft out of the car and sort it properly in a vise