Honda K20A2/A3/K24A1 Gear Shift Selector 24470-PPP-000

Genuine Honda Gear Selector Lever (24470-PPP-000) - K20 & K24

If your shifter feels loose in the gate and you've already done bushings, cables, and a short shifter without fixing it, this is very likely what you've been missing. The selector lever is the front-to-back arm inside the transmission that moves to select gears, and it wears. When the pivot tolerances open up, that play shows up at your hand as vague, sloppy shifts no amount of external hardware will tighten.

What This Part Does

This is the larger of the two selector arms on the transmission, the one with the counterweight welded to it. That counterweight isn't decoration, it helps the mechanism move decisively into gear rather than needing you to force it.

The lever handles fore and aft movement, meaning gear selection itself rather than side-to-side gate selection. Every shift you've ever made in the car has moved this part.

Why Yours Is Probably Worn

Honda builds these to a specific tolerance, and that tolerance is what keeps your shifts crisp. Over enough miles and enough shifts, the pivot points wallow out and the arm develops play it wasn't designed to have.

Here's why it's frustrating to diagnose: that play is inside the transmission, so it feels identical to worn shifter cable bushings or a tired shift linkage. People replace all of that, feel a small improvement, and still have a shifter that moves around more than it should. The wear was never in the parts they replaced.

On a car that's now twenty-plus years old with a K-series that's been shifted hard its whole life, this is a genuine wear item rather than a theoretical one.

Pair It With Selector Springs

If you're going in for this, do the whole job. A set of Hybrid Racing gear selector springs alongside a fresh lever transforms even a shifter that already felt decent.

The springs control how positively the mechanism centers and returns, and the lever controls how much play exists in the first place. Fix both and you get a shifter that feels genuinely mechanical again, notchy in the good way, with each gate clearly defined. Fix one and you've improved things without finishing them.

Given the labor to access this area, doing both at once is the obvious call.

Honda No Longer Offers The Left/Right Selector

Worth knowing while you're planning the job. Honda has discontinued the left-to-right selector, so this fore and aft lever is what remains available.

If your side-to-side gate selection also feels vague, that's unfortunately a harder problem to solve with new parts. All the more reason to replace what you can while you have access, since this lever is available now and there's no guarantee about how long that lasts.

Fitment

2002-2006 Acura RSX Base and Type-S
2002-2005 Honda Civic Si (EP3)
2002-2006 Honda CR-V
2003-2008 Honda Element

Covers K20A2, K20A3, K24A1, K24A4, and K24A8 transmissions.

Who Should Grab One

This is for the K-series owner with a shifter that's gone vague and who's figured out the problem isn't in the cables or the bushings. It's also for anyone with the transmission apart for other work who'd rather put a fresh lever in than reuse one with two decades of shifts on it. Grab a set of selector springs at the same time, put it together properly, and get back a shifter that actually feels like something.

Fits: 2002-2006 Acura RSX Base and Type-S, 2002-2005 Honda Civic Si, 2002-2006 Honda CR-V, 2003-2008 Honda Element. Engines: K20A2, K20A3, K24A1, K24A4, K24A8. Part number: 24470-PPP-000. Type: genuine Honda fore/aft gear selector lever with counterweight. Pairs with: Hybrid Racing gear selector springs.