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[Adrian]

Okay so now that your mind has been put to rest and people have shared their knowledge and experience with you. Prob helped save u from a dodgy mechanic and saved you some coin. Be a nice lad and buy a shirt NOW

[Atters]

Okay so now that your mind has been put to rest and people have shared their knowledge and experience with you. Prob helped save u from a dodgy mechanic and saved you some coin. Be a nice lad and buy a shirt NOW

thanks for all the help and advice ... and I bought 2 shirts on the day of release...am I off the hook ...?

[leadfoot]

yes yes you are

[romeo]

sorry to whore out your thread but anyone know where i can sent my gearbox in sydney? my 3rd gear crunches bad and i wanna get it checked out but dont want to get ripped off by some dodgy guy saying the whole gearbox needs a rebuild when i prob wont.

[jack be nimble]

sorry to whore out your thread but anyone know where i can sent my gearbox in sydney? my 3rd gear crunches bad and i wanna get it checked out but dont want to get ripped off by some dodgy guy saying the whole gearbox needs a rebuild when i prob wont.

mate, as a minimum if your gearbox is 20 years old and never been touched, it will need bearings on input and intermediate shafts and of course you will need new seals, because surely you don't want to reuse old seals. plus whatever is wrong with 3rd gear needs fixing.
unfortunately, some of the bearings are not that common (read expensive).
Im pretty sure the bearings were $400 alone when source from the only place in Perth that stocked the parts. but maybe cheaper east side
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The only medium cheap way to do this is to buy a press and bearing pullers and do it yourself. but if you have never built a gearbox before then its not a job for you.

But if you can remove and replace your gearbox yourself then that will save a heap

Edited by jack of all, 05 March 2013 - 02:21 PM.

[evo-gsr]

Romeo Meek can sort you out...

[romeo]

yea i take take gearbox out no worries and i know there are things that would need chaning i just didnt want to take it to someone that would upsell crap i wouldnt need. Ill give meek a call tomorrow and see what they say. cheers for the help guys

[Atters]

yea i take take gearbox out no worries and i know there are things that would need chaning i just didnt want to take it to someone that would upsell crap i wouldnt need. Ill give meek a call tomorrow and see what they say. cheers for the help guys

what did they tell ya out of interest...?

[evo-gsr]

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"Pay me lots of money and I will fix your gearbox"

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[romeo]

^
"Pay me lots of money and I will fix your gearbox"

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sounds about right lol i honestly havent had a chance to call to busy with work hopfully monday i get some downtime otherwise tuesday ill call or go past.

[Atters]

sounds about right lol i honestly havent had a chance to call to busy with work hopfully monday i get some downtime otherwise tuesday ill call or go past.

Hey mate whatever happened with finding out about rebuilding your gearbox.. mines finished and Im thinking about bashing the car with a baseball bat to make it look like it was stolen lol... joking..but seriously how did you go with your gearbox, price etc etc?

[romeo]

Hey mate whatever happened with finding out about rebuilding your gearbox.. mines finished and Im thinking about bashing the car with a baseball bat to make it look like it was stolen lol... joking..but seriously how did you go with your gearbox, price etc etc?

haha sorry forgot to update you,
gearbox overhaul labour $600, gearbox bearing set (incul seals and bearings) $400 ring assy m/t 2nd synchro gen evo 1-3 $227.70 3rd ing synchronizer $87.34.
that was all done a meek. i still hear that noise from before which im not to happy about since i was assured it would be gone once i get a genuine clutch plate. depends how bad your box is and exactly what need to be changed.

[evo-gsr]

$1300 later and still making a noise ? I would be pissed off too.

[romeo]

plus clutch and other parts it was about $2200 not to mention how long it took. plus 3rd gear still crunches my brother said that will happen for a couple weeks until the new parts settle in.

[Evo-00x]

Gearbox oil makes a big difference. What type of oil is it running?
Redline MT-90 seems to be the way to go. Just needs to warm up a little first before smoother high rpm shifting.
A GSR gearbox with single synchro 3rd gear will never shift as well above 6500rpm than an evo gearbox with double synchro 3rd gear.

I found that my old GSR gearbox with Castrol VMX-M didnt like shifting with my Fidanza lightened flywheel and single disc clutch above 6500rpm or it would crunch too, so I limited my shifts to granny shifting.
At the track when the box had some quick back to back runs and time to warm up, it stopped crunching into 3rd - go figure.
When I sat waiting and the temperature settled, it started to crunch again.

sing the right oil is the number 1 priority. Having a large single disc clutch and lightened flywheel, plus a tight fresh setup would also make it difficult to shift during these early stages after a rebuild.
I'd change the oil first to something decent as mentioned and see how it shifts after 1,000kms.

Meek have been rebuilding gearboxes for many years, Im sure they know what they are doing.

[romeo]

im using pernrite pro gear 75-90. Its just as bad as before if not worse with 3rd gear. ill give the redline a go and see how that works hopefully that solves the problem.

[Evo-00x]

Do you have lightened flywheel and a big single pate clutch disc? do you find it hard to shift at any rpm or above 6500rpm?

[romeo]

ill be honest i havent taken the car over 5 or 6k since the rebuild and i have a exedy racing fly wheel and genuine clutch plate.
http://www.meek.com....&product_id=426
http://www.meek.com....&product_id=427
i want to get the car on the dyno so i can see how much power its making. chris recommend the clutch disc and i figured he knows what he is talking about.

[Evo-00x]

Oh Romeo, oh Romeo, where for art thou 7,500rpm redline shifts gone? lol

[romeo]

lol i opened up the gsr abit today but didnt go past 6500 it shifted pretty good and easy but when drving normal it cruchces, i really hope it gets better when i change the oil i dont want to fork out more money for god knows what else