Just collected our 1992 Hymer 670 MH on a Mercedes 410D base, manual gearbox.
It being all new to me I was startled a few hundred yards down the road when I selected 3rd and not 5th gear.
As mentioned it's all new to me, the beginning of rush hour traffic and I keep missing the 5th gear. No fun I thought as I have to drive this about 600 miles that evening and the following day.
After about 30 minutes of driving and settling in I tried to watch what happened on changing from 4th to 5th, it looked as though I had positioned the lever in about the right slot but still missed 5th.
After around an hour pulled into a services and tried in the almost empty parking area to pull away in 3rd and guage the response, then in 4th, then 5th. All gears were in the right place and all had differing resistance.
Concluded there was a selector problem when changing from 4th to 5th, this was a problem for much later as had to move the MH to central France that day but was quite unhappy that we had been caught out with this purchase. Also central France was a long way from Dorset via Folkestone with 4th as my top gear.
Told Rosie that we may have a major gearbox problem (she was following in our car), we weren't very happy for a while.
Remembering what had happened on one of my works Fiat Ducato vans when the selctor mechanism partially failed, I had had to change gears out of sequence.
So tried from 3rd to 5th, as possibly the route via 4th was the problem? It worked although the gear was hardly as high, maybe not as high as 4th?
So it transpired that all gears were there but 4th and 5th had been transposed, here is the sequence -
1st - left and back
2nd - right and forward
3rd - back directly in line with 2nd
4th - right and back, yes that's back
5th - forward, directly in line with 4th
Please someone tell me that this isn't correct, rather it's a regular sequence starting at 1st.
If it's not correct how was it done?
I had been changing gear in the sequence, 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 5th - 4th, no wonder I thought I was selecting 3rd in place of 5th every time.
Have written in another thread that the comfortable cruising speed for this model feels too low, so if someone has altered? the gearbox then maybe the ratios are wrong too?
Got to France but it was painful as all logical thought (for gear changing) had to be abandonned, help please...
It being all new to me I was startled a few hundred yards down the road when I selected 3rd and not 5th gear.
As mentioned it's all new to me, the beginning of rush hour traffic and I keep missing the 5th gear. No fun I thought as I have to drive this about 600 miles that evening and the following day.
After about 30 minutes of driving and settling in I tried to watch what happened on changing from 4th to 5th, it looked as though I had positioned the lever in about the right slot but still missed 5th.
After around an hour pulled into a services and tried in the almost empty parking area to pull away in 3rd and guage the response, then in 4th, then 5th. All gears were in the right place and all had differing resistance.
Concluded there was a selector problem when changing from 4th to 5th, this was a problem for much later as had to move the MH to central France that day but was quite unhappy that we had been caught out with this purchase. Also central France was a long way from Dorset via Folkestone with 4th as my top gear.
Told Rosie that we may have a major gearbox problem (she was following in our car), we weren't very happy for a while.
Remembering what had happened on one of my works Fiat Ducato vans when the selctor mechanism partially failed, I had had to change gears out of sequence.
So tried from 3rd to 5th, as possibly the route via 4th was the problem? It worked although the gear was hardly as high, maybe not as high as 4th?
So it transpired that all gears were there but 4th and 5th had been transposed, here is the sequence -
1st - left and back
2nd - right and forward
3rd - back directly in line with 2nd
4th - right and back, yes that's back
5th - forward, directly in line with 4th
Please someone tell me that this isn't correct, rather it's a regular sequence starting at 1st.
If it's not correct how was it done?
I had been changing gear in the sequence, 1st - 2nd - 3rd - 5th - 4th, no wonder I thought I was selecting 3rd in place of 5th every time.
Have written in another thread that the comfortable cruising speed for this model feels too low, so if someone has altered? the gearbox then maybe the ratios are wrong too?
Got to France but it was painful as all logical thought (for gear changing) had to be abandonned, help please...