Sloppy Second

[Will_318i]

So ever since I picked up my lovely 318... I've noticed that I have a lot of shifter play. Like I can literally shake the shifter in a complete circle while I'm in gear or neutral. So I decided to take my shift boot off and found this:


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What can I do about that pretty much destroyed rubber boot? I would ultimately like a SSK, but if it's something that inexpensive and not too time consuming to do myself, I would rather do that.

Here is how far my 2nd and 4th gears end up going. I know it normally shouldn't go this far down:


Thanks guys.

[dashboardmonkey]

shifter and or carrier bushings are wore out, probably both, replace them.

not too hard of a hob just time consuming.

not too expensive either

[Wishno87]

Jean has a great thread on how to rebuild the early shift mechanisms.