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.So, got on and removed the selector shaft from the gearbox. The bearing was toast as expected, but the unfortunate news is the selctor shaft itself is heavy pitted and gouged from running on a knackered bearing and water ingress. Got a brand new one coming, so things are on hold until then. Little photographic how to below, but it goes basically like
1, remove clutch cable to gain access to 27mm hex cover, which means, operating the clutch lever on box, clipping the white retainer to kepp the clutch cable tensioned, remove retaining clip rubber from cable and pull the cable out.
2, remove nut holding linkage to selector shaft
3, remove 27mm hex cover, big spring behind so be sure to get it.
4, possibly the scary bit. Removing the top detent bolt, if you have a late box its 24mm and is kinda like a ballpoint pen arrangement. scary part is it can come apart as your removing and sprinkle hundreds of tiny ball bearings into your box. As you can see it came out in one piece, but fell apart in my hand! lucky!
5, the shaft will now slide out towards the radiator.
6, with a suitable drift knock the old bearing out towards the cab.
7, press in new bearing from the cab end. i used a long shouldered bolt and a couple washers to wind it in.
Thats where im up to now, couple pics of the knackered shaft included. More when i get the new one in.
Driver’s door handle gave up the ghost on Thursday, got myself a good second hand one from MK2 spares which arrived today ?
One screw on the opposite side to the key to remove the latch, remove little spring on the barrel, put key in barrel and pull out! Then reassemble and refit. Yay I can now lock(and get into) the drivers door again!
Half the problem with the old one may have been it was a aftermarket topran, not original.
So, fitted the new selector shaft. amazing how much wear the old one had! bad news is it didnt fix the problem, but it did actually allow me to select 5th although it was hard to get in/out. on the plus side this allowed me to see what position the lever should be in when in 5th. i then disconnected the linkage and tried directly on the box…
same problem, so the issue is box related. I have made the decision to remove the engine and box and a friend is going to rebuild the box for me. I am going to take the opportunity to fit the AGG 2.0 gti engine as well.
Made a start on stripping the front, Bullbar, grill, lower valence, fogs, bash plate ect all now off
almost ready!!
just a couple bits to unbolt then i can slide it out!
Loom stripping! Paring down the AGG loom, getting rid of all the non essential stuff like headlights ect. Should get down to around half the amount shown.
once the wires are fed through the bulkhead and the engine is in i’ll probably shorten a lot of the wires as the loom seems to be a lot longer than the mk2 1P one
