Gear Linkage Snapped, what to do?

[GPT27]

Accelerated hard in first, changed to second, couldn't find a gear, finally found third then fifth but once I stopped it was game over.

AA man said the linkage cable had snapped which is what I suspected. He got me into second and I drove it home (about 2 miles luckily).

I know this is a common failure on Elans but I can't find much about it in the forum, if anyone has any links or info for me I'd really appreciate it especially on:

1. What parts I need.

2. How much are the parts?

3. How hard is it to fit. (especially, could I do it myself with no ramps etc and only a scoket set and some screw drivers).

I would really appreciate any info you guys have. I guess bank holiday weekends are not good times to break down garage wise so if any one knows the location of a write-up on how to swap in a new one that would be great.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[John_W]

GPT,
this has been mentioned a lot as you say (most recently by Stef or JimP). If you can't find what you want by the search function, look here:
http://www.lotuselancentral.com/lec/shifter.htm

Basically you have three main options:
- buy a new Lotus set of cables
- buy an improved set of cables from either Alan Betts (http://www.abmotosport.com/Elan_products.html) or WillB who acts as agent in UK.
- repair them using Dimitri's neat solution in the reference above.

Depends how much cash you have and how badly bust they are.

John

[WillB]

Thanks Jon,

Not sure if you've got the cables sorted now GPT? If not I have a set available

Will