Gearbox Oop's
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:06 am
I had to replace a shot thrust bearing in the clutch today.
I had the gearbox out fairly quickly and all was going well (I even decided to pull the pressure plate and clutch while I was there just to check all was OK)
So all was good, the new thrust bearing was in and I proceded to put it all back together, then just when it was "almost" finished and all I really had to do was fit the slave, lady luck frowned on me!
I dropped the actuator fork push rod down in the bell-housing.
After much cursing and swearing and a futile attemp to locate and retreive it with a magnet, I determined the only way to retreive it was to remove the gearbox once again! ..... so in actual fact I fitted TWO gearboxes today!
Moral of the story! ....Err hang on tight to the push rod when fitting it!
I had the gearbox out fairly quickly and all was going well (I even decided to pull the pressure plate and clutch while I was there just to check all was OK)
So all was good, the new thrust bearing was in and I proceded to put it all back together, then just when it was "almost" finished and all I really had to do was fit the slave, lady luck frowned on me!
I dropped the actuator fork push rod down in the bell-housing.
After much cursing and swearing and a futile attemp to locate and retreive it with a magnet, I determined the only way to retreive it was to remove the gearbox once again! ..... so in actual fact I fitted TWO gearboxes today!
Moral of the story! ....Err hang on tight to the push rod when fitting it!