How to replace MERCEDES SPRINTER Gear Cables | Roadside Follow along guide NO SPECIAL TOOLS NEEDED 

Hi wow some great mileage you have on yours. Changing the bush was easy enough, the hardest bit of that process was removing the actual gear knob. It may be better if you can find a replacement gear selector mechanism. I replaced mine with a low mileage one which was more expensive but it meant everything had very little wear on it. If you want to keep the price low replacing the bush also worked, it just took a bit more effort. If you check the other videos on this channel you’ll see the full range of replacing the; gear linkage cables, counterweight, entire mechanism, selector bush too. I hope they help and you get it sorted. Just got back from a 5500 trip in ours with no issues at all, so once the gear selection was sorted it’s all working well with the 274,000 miles 👍

Fingers crossed. Cheers for the comment, couldn’t find anything on RU-vid when I did mine so I hope this video helps. Good luck 👍

Hey up mi duck🤣 if you take the gear box out you just need a really really big hammer to get it back in 👍🔨

Hi again! Yes I did use a genuine replacement cable, however it wasn't new. It came with the second hand gear mechanism I bought from eBay recently and replaced on the van in the last video. It was more to see if there was any difference on selecting 2nd gear, but I'm coming to the conclusion that there is gearbox damage causing that issue. It is only really slight and not geting any worse so I'll live with that for now. How is your repair/adjustment of your gears holding up? And where are you looking to head to next?

Hi David, the black clips at the gearbox end came with the secondhand cables I bought, but I know they are not included when buying the cables from main dealer and need to be bought separately. If you ask at the Mercedes parts desk they will be able to give you those too. Just out of interest have you a price for the new cables from MB? Rang them recently for a price of a rear light cluster and meant to ask then but forgot

Just found the part number for the black clips - Mercedes Sprinter 6 Speed A9062680166 you’ll need two of them as they are sold separately 👍

@@beaulunaedvantures nice one thanks, I’ll ring them up and see, if you go online now western commercial MB dealer currently selling linkage cable set for £97.20. 👍

@@beaulunaedvantures that’s great, thanks for the part number, I actually have a 2014 VW crafter but it’s a rebadged sprinter, only difference is the engine and front face styling, everything else including gearbox is the same. 👍

@@aberdeendeltaforce Thanks very much that’s really helpful. Good luck if you give it a go 👍 I’ve very little experience with this sort of thing and found it pretty easy going

Hi, thanks. Same year as ours 😁 we were having major issues trying to select gears, mainly 1st, 2nd and reverse. The gear lever would have to by rammed into these gears and crunched into them. The reverse lights and camera would come on trying to select 1st gear and going through the gears was a pretty miserable experience. The biggest change was replacing the gear selector bush in the dash mounted gear selection mechanism (that’s what I call it anyway). Changing the gearbox oil made no real difference on our van, but it was good to do for maintenance I think. If your having issues with stiffness selecting all the gears I’d say the cables would be a good place to start for sure. And changing the gearbox oil is a relatively simple procedure so might also be worth a go too. Let me know how you get on 👍

Pretty much all we drive in Europe 😁