Gear levers

If you have read the first couple of articles about when Isobel arrived, you might remember that when I took a look inside, to somewhat of a shock, I noticed that all three gear levers were missing. Since then, its been playing on my mind, mostly because to source a period correct main lever, people are asking lots of money. I saw one at a Land Rover spares day early on in my journey with Isobel, when I asked how much, had I been sat down, would have nearly fallen off my chair, £140 he was asking for.

As it happened, I didn’t buy that one, thankfully, but did buy one that was not 100% correct, the knob was a push on one as opposed to screw on and the ball at the end of the gearstick didn’t have the ‘O’ ring.

Just for reference, this is the drawing of the main gearlever from the parts book.

Also, the one I bought didn’t have the inner workings.

I have been keeping an eye out for all 3 levers ever since, as was not happy with the one I bought. Finally, and patience is a virtue, I found one being advertised on FB marketplace, and not only the main gearlever, they also had the Low/High lever, both at reasonable prices, so made them and offer for both, which they accepted, thats 2 out of 3.

Soon after, I saw a 4WD lever being advertised, again at a sensible price, so bought that one also. Fantastic, I now have all three gear levers, and all for less than the guy at the LR Spares Day was asking for. So I set about tidying them up. Not much else to say, other than here are the before and after pictures. they are all wrapped up and stored for later.

Now for those uneducated in Land rover Gears, as I am! here is a brief “very simple” explanation of why there are 3.