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Gear Lever - A bit fiddly to get into gear (Gen 4)

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20 Dec 2020 10:07 #231052 by Groenewald
Thanks for all the suggestions!

I will do the following this afternoon:

* Make sure there's no obstruction when I depress the clutch
* Check the clutch adjustment - first figure out where and then how

I got my Jimny with 7500km on the clock. When do they usually do the first fluids change?

Another question for the GEN 4 owners:

When you depress the clutch fully, how far from the bottom should the clutch start to engage?

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20 Dec 2020 10:11 #231053 by lightning
Ours engages quite high up, in fact it takes a bit of getting used to after my Defender where the clutch biting point is quite low down.

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22 Dec 2020 01:09 - 22 Dec 2020 02:48 #231095 by crash486

Groenewald wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions!

I will do the following this afternoon:

* Make sure there's no obstruction when I depress the clutch
* Check the clutch adjustment - first figure out where and then how

I got my Jimny with 7500km on the clock. When do they usually do the first fluids change?

Another question for the GEN 4 owners:

When you depress the clutch fully, how far from the bottom should the clutch start to engage?

Fluid changes detailed in the owner's manual. Normal driving is like 40k kms for gearbox oil change. I did mine at around 10k kms . TC has been changed twice for me, once with new chain installed and once when the gearbox oil was changed.
Have seen a video of gearbox oil change at 20k kms and it was black.
Keeping the car a while and think 40k kms is way too long before a change.

crash486 JB74W
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22 Dec 2020 12:03 #231105 by Roger Fairclough
I agree with crash 486. Lubricant is cheap in relation to possible damage to major items.

Roger

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24 Dec 2020 05:46 #231153 by Groenewald
I went to Suzuki this week and asked one of the guys to take a look at the gear shifting.

He said it feels fine. I also compared it to another one they had on the floor, and it felt rather similar.

Mind you, I tend to compare it to our Rav4's gear shifting - but the Rav is on about 330K km now....

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24 Dec 2020 06:43 #231154 by Lambert
Dreadnaught at 10 years and 110000 miles has a much more accurate tighter gear change than Leviathan(my prado) at 2.5 years and 34000 miles.

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