FRP said:
Goodlick Chris....we know you will get there in the end !
Eventually yes but back to square one at the moment although it has been a good learning curve.
I watched MC's gearbox video last night and noticed his Pinion bearing also has the recess and his is a 3.4 gearbox but again I only have seen one part number for this bearing? I'm just wondering the origin of my gearbox?
I spent another 3 hours today trying to get the nose seated over the gears, there are 8 elements to line up , 5 selector rods, 2 bearings and one selector roller wheel and all are unseen once you get the majority of the nose over the gears. The main issue is the main gear selector in the centre, it moves about somewhat when dropping the nose over.
I used a couple of screwdrivers to line it up again and also some cable ties in various ways but when I did get it to go over the 5 selector rods the roller wheel that moves the first selector shaft fell off, this happened several times and I had to remove the nose each time, when I managed to get the wheel to stay on I seated the two faces and found the gear selector didn't work, it was stuck solid, so off it came again, this also happened a few times, I lost count of how many times I had to remove it.
This is the offending roller, I held it in place with engine rebuild lube as this is quite sticky but even then it fell off a few times.
I did eventually get the casings seated and sealed (used Loctite 5900) but this was a ridiculous amount of time just to put something back that takes 3 seconds to remove, if you don't count the undoing of the bolts. Hopefully it won't take so long next time.
So the gearbox will be back to it old self when its fitted, with a noisy 3rd gear and I will have to revisit all this again when I get more time.