Right for those of you who are interested on tuesday this week i'm rebuilding my gearbox and will be taking a load of pics etc so if anyone else wants to try one day they can see what problems we've encountered
Firstly I'll tell you why. Basically I bought the car april last year 1.9D L £940 ebay - bargin. Had 109k on the clock and a recent rebuild of the box. By summer I had done about 6k then a new gf in manchester (me near leicester) the milage climbed - a whining sound started in the gearbox after another 10k. spoke to the old man he said it would be the bearing - leave it a while and we'll do it when we can see what the problem is. 11k later the bearing burst luckily i was 1mins drive from home so got it back ok. I crushed to gears together - things weren't looking good.
However now after 3months without the car i've finally decided to fix it.
Bought the gears and the bearing is on it's way
Gears were 73.45 +VAT and 53.61 +VAT totally £149.30
The bearing was about £20 which i got from another company (not vw)
You can see the larger one has the synchro on and was the more expensive of the 2
Will update on tuesday after (hopefully) the box gets rebuilt and back into the car
James
Gearbox Rebuild (updated pics 56k beware)
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Gearbox Rebuild (updated pics 56k beware)
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Right where to start...
Here is the new parts with the old
First stage was to use the lathe to spin the damaged shaft so that sandpaper could get a smooth surface again to fit the new bearing
Then rebuild the shafts up with the gears
Get them in place and make sure eveything fits
The selectors were so hard to get in I didn't manage to get any photos of the process of fitting them and the reverse gear so next load of pics is the gears and selectors ready in the gearbox ready for sealing
Then sealed and oil driven in.
The box feels great and 2moro evening i'll be refitting to the car and hopefully no more problems
James
Here is the new parts with the old
First stage was to use the lathe to spin the damaged shaft so that sandpaper could get a smooth surface again to fit the new bearing
Then rebuild the shafts up with the gears
Get them in place and make sure eveything fits
The selectors were so hard to get in I didn't manage to get any photos of the process of fitting them and the reverse gear so next load of pics is the gears and selectors ready in the gearbox ready for sealing
Then sealed and oil driven in.
The box feels great and 2moro evening i'll be refitting to the car and hopefully no more problems
James
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Yeah it was all about just going for it. The car had been off the road so long i just got fed up. Me and my dad have rebuilt now 4 gearboxes, 2 of those VW and 1 other vw box which we took apart to see if i could use any parts in there. Selectors were different on everyone but this one was by far the best one - although extremely difficult to fit.
I'm fitting the bax back into the car 2night if anyone wants to see some pics i'll put some up
James
I'm fitting the bax back into the car 2night if anyone wants to see some pics i'll put some up
James
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