Gear selection

[SEKN410]

Hi all, after leaving my van standing for a while i had difficulty getting in to 1st gear once or twice but then drove normally until it gave up completely. Stuck at a junction in neutral unable to get any gear at all. After about half hour and much cursing managed to get 1st and 2nd to get me home. Another half hour trying to get reverse to get on to the drive. Got a mate who diagnosed wear in the gear linkage bushes so I bought the rear refurb kit from jk and we fitted that…no change bought the front kit still no change. Throughout this it also gets jammed in which ever gear you can get it into. Could this just be we haven’t set it back up properly, was it the correct diagnosis to start with, or should I be looking elsewhere ​​​​​
thanks for looking , Eugene

[jrt]

Have you tried bleeding the clutch/ replaced the fluid/checked movement at the slave/changed the gearbox oil.
With the new link have you put the rear linkage bracket on the correct side of the flange?
David.

[colinthefox]

When this happened to me (in Slovenia!) it was the crank spigot bearing had collapsed.

[mioba]

check your aluminium guides and the plastic's on the forks.
Check the spring.

JK stuff is pants and overpriced. Use BW

These boxes and controls are very simple and easy to maintain

Have you also checked the plastic cup on the rear, all the rubbers are also good?

Bushing all well well lubed?

[SEKN410]

Thanks all for your replies - once the weather decides to play ball I’ll go & look at the pointers you’ve suggested - will keep you updated  

[Al Housman]

Looks like you're probably not a million miles from me (Oswestry). I had a similar, but maybe not so severe, problem last week which I traced (thanks to advice from Aidan) to a missing nylon tip on the front selector fork. Seemingly insignificant but it was transformed by the addition of a new one.
An easy starting point.
 

[Aidan]

I did email op but probably in his spam folder

[SEKN410]

I did email op but probably in his spam folder

Sorry Aidan I thought that I’d replied to your email …DOH!! 
Other Half is working Away this weekend- back tomorrow so will see these replies then 

Many Thanks Tracy  

[SEKN410]

Hi all,
slight improvements made, selecting gears now but still quite notchty just received new gear guides from brickworks ( only had the cast ones in stock ) will fit Thursday and report back. Thanks you lot, all replies greatly appreciated …just want my van back 

[mioba]

Your van will be back and good as gold.
They need to be kept on top of to be perfect and you are getting there