This is a continuation of the thread that started in the 'sure you don't want a mk2? go on, kick me!' thread...............
I worked for a g/box reconditioners for a while, most recon g/boxes just needed bearings and synchro's. If it was more than that (gears etc) they were not viable and the good parts used for spares. We used to buy a lot of low milage g/boxes out of crashed cars with broken cases for most of the internal parts.
Steve.
Thats what I figured. Out of the 5 gearboxes I have, 1 is completely knackered and I plan to use for spares, 2 is suspect and I shall probably use for spares, 3 is fitted to the cabrio and has a 2nd gear synchro that is showing signs of starting to wear, 4 is fitted to my project Mk1 and is believed to be OK, but won't know for sure until we run it and no.5 is a good low mileage box that I bought from old_boy.
On top of that I'm trying to fix MK1_BOY's for him........I've almost completely stripped it down but have come against a hurdle on the very last bit.......removing the third/fourth gear synchro.........its tight as f_ck even having heated it. Looks like I might have to purchase a proper bearing puller set, maybe something like this:-
That would have made life very easy had I had one of them from the start.
I think I'll have to wait and see how much a new synchro assembly is going to cost to see if its all worthwhile. I'm hoping that the parts are reasonably priced from VW and that once I have all the necessary tooling I'll be able to make lighter work of repairing these gearboxes in the future.
What do you reckon?
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