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Gear Shift Gate

Thursday, 22 July 2010

Early Ferrari’s had what’s called a dog leg gear box. First gear is at the bottom left of the gate, reverse is top left. From first gear to change to second gear you push the gear stick forward, let it spring to centre and then push forward again. When I took the car for an MOT the first time I tried to change to second gear the I just about put the car into reverse. To intentionally engage reverse you should have to push the gear stick down. I took the famous Ferrari metal gear shift gate (shown upside down) off and inspected it. The reverse block off had clearly worn away allowing reverse gear to be engaged without pushing the gear stick down. My work colleague Neil welded up the worn metal and filed it to shape. The reverse block out now works as it should.

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