Gear linkage asbly bracket snapped off, please help.

1. Outdoorsman Newbie Joined: Mar 2012 Devizes Posts: 27 Saxo Forte 1.1 51 (2002) 3 door hatch (gold)

   #1 5th March 2012, 14:04

   Hi All
   
   (newbe alert)
   
   I have recently taken possession if a Saxo 1.1 on a 51 plate (it’s the bog standard version, no power steering, no leccy windows etc.) anyway, I lent it to my son the other day and within an hour got a phone call to say he’d broken it :o|
   
   It turns out that he’s somehow managed to snap off / shear the two bolts that hold the gear linkage asbly. bracket to the bulkhead at the bottom of the engine bay. Now we are neither of us mechanics, as for me, well I’m a total mechnophobe but we got under the bonnet to see if we could fix it (money’s real tight so can’t afford to pay someone) there are still a couple of short stubs sticking out of the bulkhead, but not enough to get a nut onto the thread once the bracket is back in place. Does anyone know how to get at these bolts to get them out and replace them, or are they as I suspect, captive / welded into the bulkhead?
   
   Any advice would be truly appreciated as, living out in the sticks, I am now properly stuck :o(
   
   Many thanks.
2. devilsadvocate Saxperience Post Whore Joined: Dec 2006 Maidstone Posts: 8210 Golf TDI

   #2 5th March 2012, 16:51

   Hi mate
   
   Would these be the nobbly bits which are on the end of the long arm connected to the bottom of your gear stick?
   
   or maybe the part which connects to the gearbox itself?
   
   There is a control arm which goes over a round stub on the gearbox and is held on with a roll pin, this arm is then connected (with a gear linkage) to the long pole going to the bottom of the gear stick.
   
   What symptoms do you have?
   Can you get it into any gear at all?
3. crisppug Newbie Joined: Aug 2008 walsall Posts: 26 106 gti s2

   #3 5th March 2012, 17:23

   cheapest way would be to riv nut the bulkhead and alter the fixing points on the bracket.that way you can leave the studs in and still secure the linkage plate.
4. scottie_436 Regular Poster Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 449

   #4 6th March 2012, 20:42

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by crisppug cheapest way would be to riv nut the bulkhead and alter the fixing points on the bracket.that way you can leave the studs in and still secure the linkage plate.

   +1
   
   he's done bloody well to snap the studs holding that on!
   
   Slap him!
5. Ben_SaxoForte Saxperience Forum Bum Joined: Mar 2009 Stoke-on-trent Posts: 2640 Mk5 Golf GTTDI Mk2 VTR Project

   #5 6th March 2012, 21:17

   Quote:

   Originally Posted by scottie_436 +1 he's done bloody well to snap the studs holding that on! Slap him!

   +1 how the hell did he manage that! haha..
6. Outdoorsman Newbie Joined: Mar 2012 Devizes Posts: 27 Saxo Forte 1.1 51 (2002) 3 door hatch (gold)

   #6 15th May 2012, 19:46

   haha, i have a feeling he did a bit of off roading, slap duly delivered and all fixed now by a friend with a welder :o\