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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: OTeunico on 22 March 2025, 16:35:21

Title: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: OTeunico on 22 March 2025, 16:35:21

Hi folks,
My gear lever (1998 MFL) has a broken reverse trigger.
According to the Opel parts catalogue all gear levers are the same ...except for UK police spec ones.
What's the difference over the standard item?
(https://i.postimg.cc/5NRZs07b/Screenshot-20250322-172715.png)

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 22 March 2025, 18:11:10

Possibly a slightly shorter throw or a heavier duty bushing.

They're almost certainly going to be interchangeable.

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: Enceladus on 22 March 2025, 18:35:35

Seems to me that the UK Police spec gear lever assembly has the same part number as the standard version without leather (trim?). IE GM# 90436516 Opel KAT 7-38-124. And this assembly was only used until chassis S1127872. The S indicates Model Year 1995. Your car is much later

GM# 90436517 Opel KAT 7-38-173 would seem to be the lever assembly fitted to all manual cars after MY1995 and had leather trim. So that's likely your car.

Good luck finding one. Have you dismantled the gear lever to see why the reverse pull-up isn't working?

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: OTeunico on 22 March 2025, 23:25:36

My reverse trigger works ok, but is slightly painful since the plastic is broken and I have to pull directly over the aluminium.
I have discovered that 1996 MY on the gear lever was made 1" shorter for better access to the radio. Maybe police spec maintained the longer one?

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: Enceladus on 23 March 2025, 14:00:15

Does you car have the Police gearshift?

Regardless it seems to me that you need part number 5 from your drawing, "GM# 90435930 / Opel KAT 7-38-768 Collar, reverse gearshift lever (NLS-No Replacement Part)". And that part seems to be the same on all the manual gearshift levers.

Since it's NLS (No Longer Serviced) and No Replacement Part it likely went out of production in 2003. So you might struggle to find a new lever assembly or the reverse collar on it's own.

I suggest  you put up a part wanted message in the Test Zone (https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?board=9.0) of the forum and hopefully the Admin will move it to the correct Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted (https://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?board=7.0) section.

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: OTeunico on 23 March 2025, 23:17:41

I don't have an ex police car. Was just curious about what had different the police stick.
I'm currently building my own box/armrest and a longer lever for the gearbox will be perfect. I may try to take the whole stick out and replace it with a simple stick with no reverse trigger.

Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: OTeunico on 14 April 2025, 20:20:43

Problem solved![img(https://i.postimg.cc/75SmHkD0/IMG-20250414-190442-913.jpg)

(https://i.postimg.cc/McxtXFK4/IMG-20250414-190954-055.jpg)

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Title: Re: UK police spec gear lever.
Post by: OTeunico on 14 April 2025, 20:30:05

Now I found much pleasant driving without trigger/pull-up lever.
When driving in 5th I must now remember that "R" stands for "reverse" and not for "racing top gear"  ;D