Right, so here's my first DIY of what I did to improve my gear change, this ended up being quite successful, which I am incredibly thankful for as the gear change has annoyed me for ages now lol. (The bit inside the car is universal to the Gen1 and Gen2)
First of all, for Gen1 owners I advise you to do the DIY shown in the DIY section:
http://www.hyundaicoupe.info/diy/index. ... =m_welcome
For Gen2 owners, our set up is slightly different, so firstly I'll do the DIY for that: (This gear linkage bit is just for the Gen2, for the Gen1 check the DIY mod, then scroll down past all the under-the-bonnet changes.
Firstly, locate this lot: (Look directly underneath the air feed pipe, if you look from the side you should easily spot it)
Where the bottom arrow is, slip a washer onto there to tighten it up, you do this simply by pulling off the clip.
For the bottom arrow, you first have to undo two bolts, as shown below:
Then this section will come apart, keep it in the same order but slide the washer on next to the part that looks like a spring (where the bottom arrow points above) and bolt everything back down.
Then you will see connected to this piece like a large weight (on the left of this picture), well if you follow the arm that it seems to link to, you will see this part:
Again slide the washer in there and that is the under bonnet stuff sorted. A good way to tell the difference between before and after is to have someone waggle the gear stick and change gears before you do this, and then after you do this, you will notice afterwards that the linkage no longer rattles (you can hear it & you can see it)
After this, we need to look at these parts:
The main problem is this part: (It is the spring in the square, ignore the arrows, those where for when I was explaining something else to Stewart lol!
(Ignore the arrows)
As you can see on the picture, you want that spring to be tight (as it is on the picture) to the two prongs that it touches, most probably if you check yours now you will notice that the spring is wide apart as mine used to be (which is why the stick wobbles), so if you tighten that up that will make the big difference (makes the stick tighter in its movement), as you go to fit the spring though you should have to pull it around the two prongs that are sticking up, you should find this relatively difficult to do:
Finally, the last picture:
The left arrow shows where to put the washer onto part of the linkage, the right hand arrow shows the tight fit that the spring now is.
(I haven't finished with this yet, I still mean to put a washer onto the bottom of the gear stick (where the linkage joins) and also, I am waiting upon some very thin washers to pack out a few more places along the line, also I am tempted to stick in a bit of copper grease on the pivot where the gear stick swings from, I shall add onto the DIY if I have any luck with this.)
Right, so that is my DIY for improving the gear change, hope that this will help all Gen1 and Gen2 owners.
Mine is now stupidly better than what it used to be, and makes driving the car a lot better (I think so anyway) If you are going to Rivington feel free to try mine and you can see the difference.
From this I would expect for the Gen1 to have the best results as the bolt that connect the gearstick to the holder uses plastic washers in the part the stick bolts to, where-as the Gen2 has metal washers which eventaully just die (so check them as that allows the stick to wobble a bit also as the bolt has free movement), I changed all of the parts shown in the pic for those off of a Gen1 whilst I had the chance (the plastic washers make a big difference)
(Nb: I take no responsibility for any broken parts (mainly relates to the spring when you try tightening it up but this applies to other parts aswell.) Doing this shouldn't be a problem, and this DIY is tried and tested on my Gen2.
