How do you tighten a loose shifter?

How to Tighten a Loose Gear Shift

Step 1: Open the center console around the gear shifter.
Step 2: Turn the gear shifter knob counterclockwise and remove it.
Step 3: Remove the retaining bolts at the base.
Step 4: Now pull the gear shifter lever from the console hole.
Step 5: Replace it with new bushing.

What does it mean when your gear shifter is loose?

Generally, most all gear shifters will become loose due to aggressive gear changing from the gear shifter. Aggressive gear changing can cause damage to the bushing on the bottom of the gear shifter lever. Once the bushing is damaged, it will cause slack in the gear shifter.

Why does my shift knob feel loose?

When a shifter bushing is worn, the shifter feels loose. It’s because the worn bushing left a gap between the handle and the shift rail. Shift rails have detent notches machined into their sides. A spring-loaded ball fits into the detent notch to keep the transmission in gear.

Where is the gear shift indicator?

Every vehicle with an automatic transmission has a shift indicator, whether it’s a digital or mechanical readout on your instrument panel or a lit or mechanical indicator by your console-mounted gearshift lever. The shift indicator is attached to a shift indicator cable.

What is a gear selection indicator?

A gear selection indicator for manual transmissions includes a shift lever knob with lights arranged thereon for indicating the usual gear selections of “1” to “5”, and “R.” The lights are independently controlled by separate switches, each of which are arranged to be engaged by the shift lever at a different gear …