Volkswagen Workshop Service and Repair Manuals

• Ignition/starter switch
• Locking cable
• ◆ Must not be kinked
• ◆ Adjusting
• ◆ Removing and installing => Page 37-35
• Clip
• ◆ For securing locking cable
• ◆ Always renew
• Selector lever handle
• Set screw, 1.5 Nm
• Cover
• ◆ With selector indicator
• ◆ With hole for vehicles with programme switch on selector lever => Item 29

• Protective sleeve for selector lever
• Cover strip
• ◆ Insert in cover -Fig. 6-
• Selector lever
• ◆ Dismantling and assembling => Page 37-27
• ◆ To remove selector lever, lower protective plate is removed and front protective plate removed and pushed forward.
• ◆ When installing selector lever, insert locking cable anchorage in notch of selector lever housing.
• ◆ Securing wiring loom to selector lever housing (selector lever lock solenoid with single wiring loom) => Fig. 3
• ◆ Securing wiring loom for selector lever lock solenoid and scale lighting (wiring loom not an integral part of solenoid) => Fig. 5

• Nuts
• ◆ To secure central console
• Distance piece
• Gasket
• Selector lever housing
• ◆ Need not be removed to renew selector lever cable or individual parts of shift mechanism
• ◆ Securing selector lever housing => Fig. 1
• ◆ Removing => Fig. 2
• Screw, 25 Nm
• ◆ Qty. 2 / 4 => Fig. 1
• Nut, 15 Nm
• ◆ Always renew
• ◆ Qty. 3

• Protective sleeve
• ◆ Insert into selector lever housing before attaching selector lever cable =>Fig. 1
• Hexagon nut, 25 Nm
• ◆ With shoulder
• ◆ Installing => Fig. 1
• Selector lever cable
• ◆ To remove selector lever, lower protective plate is removed, exhaust system is separated in front of catalyst (catalyst is removed on 6-Cyl. engines) and front protective plate removed.
• ◆ Do not bend or kink, lightly grease cable eye and cable ends before installing.
• ◆ Tighten selector lever cable on cable anchorage/selector lever housing to 20 Nm

• ◆ Check guide tube for tight fit
• ◆ Check protective sleeve between console and lever/gearshift shaft for proper seating and secure selector lever cable with corrugated locking element
• ◆ Attach selector lever cable to selector lever => Fig. 6
• ◆ Adjusting => Page 37-4

• Seal
• ◆ Bonded to cable anchorage
• ◆ Renew if damaged
• Circlip
• ◆ Install after fitting selector lever cable => Fig. 6
• Washer
• Bolt, 6 Nm
• ◆ Loosen to adjust locking cable => Page 37-40

• Gearbox
• Lever
• ◆ For selector shaft
• Console
• ◆ With cable anchorage for selector lever cable
• Washer
• Combi-bolt, 25 Nm
• Corrugated locking element
• ◆ For selector lever cable
• ◆ Always renew
• Programme switch -E122-
• ◆ Only for vehicles with programme switch -E122-
  => Page 00-3
• ◆ Discontinued from 01.93 => Gearboxes for vehicles with electronic programme switch, Page 00-5
• ◆ Can be checked electrically => Page 01-46

→ Fig.1    Securing selector lever housing

• ‒ Before attaching selector lever cable insert boot (arrow).

Note:

When securing the selector lever housing with 4 bolts -A-, the nut with collar -B- is not fitted.

→ Fig.2    Removing selector lever housing

• ‒ Remove rear central console.
• ‒ Remove hexagon nut with shoulder.
• ‒ Remove lower protective plate.
• ‒ Disconnect Lambda probe connector, separate exhaust system in front of catalyst (remove catalyst on vehicles with 6-Cyl. engine).
• ‒ Remove front protective plate and rear lower bolts (arrows).

→ Fig.3    Securing wiring loom to selector lever housing

(Solenoid with single wiring loom)

• ‒ Press wiring loom into clips and into selector lever housing (arrows).

→ Fig.4    Attaching selector lever cable to selector lever

• ‒ Fit selector lever cable eye (arrow) on selector lever and secure with circlip.

→ Fig.5    Securing selector lever lock solenoid "a" and scale lighting "b" wiring loom

(Wiring loom not an integral part of solenoid)