Tapping sound and stiff 2nd gear !

[RichardBaronGolf]

Managed to find a car shop that's open till 10 7 days a week last night. Bought the required tools tighten all 6 of them as they were all loose! By loose I mean hand tight!! Disgraceful!

Save to say won't be using or going to garage again, Tried to tell me that they loosen themselves sometimes but I don't believe all 6 would have it has obvisoly  been overlooked!

Also ordered some new gearbox oil so will update on if that changes things, thank you for the advice guys! 

[falconmick]

Name & shame the cowboys!

[analogue_rogue]

lucky they didn't shear off!!! that's the common cause for daage to the cups..

what gearbox do you have? I have a spare 8v one going cheap.. although I think its different

[thai-wronghorse]

It's an 02A /16v gearbox.

[analogue_rogue]

Ill check the code later as its a 91 box but im pretty sure they are different.

[spikenipple]

What a bunch of jokers 
Trying to fob you off by saying 'they loosen themselves off' is absolutely disgraceful! Clearly they have never heard of a torque wrench!
I would take the car to a reputable garage and have them check and retorque every bolt that is touched during a clutch change.

[Len]

Even sensible people can forget to torque up bolts!

[analogue_rogue]

driveshaft bolts are one of those I use thread lock on!!!! lol

[RichardBaronGolf]

Whats the cups?

I've changed the gearbox oil with some decent oil and now it goes into gear fine regardless of whether its cold hot or moving! woo!

However theres still a tapping sound coming from somewhere its driving me mental cause inside the car you can hear it but when I poke my head under I haven't got a clue where its coming from!

I'll have to wait till Friday till I can pay someone to have a look at it as I'm skint! Anyone got any ideas?

[RichardBaronGolf]

Tapping sound was a gearbox mount left yep you guessed it loose...