- Sat Oct 05, 2019 8:39 pm
#85874
Having found a crack in my gearbox casing, a new one has been purchased (the main bearing have being put in prior to its delivery. Shafts have been checked and run true, all gears appear in order. new bearings have been fitted in casing and carrier plate all are seated properly. gears have been assembled and reassembled quite a few times now, checked and double checked. Assembly is done as per Official workshop manual, and all is good until I start to pinch the carrier plate up. Everything turns freely, but as soon as the bolts are taken past finger tight on the carrier, everything locks and becomes impossible to turn. Sadly i dont have an engineers block to check the carrier is flat, but there is no obvious damage. The original stripdown was done due to a failed main bearing. Has anyone else encountered this...am I missing something obvious...for the time Ive spent on it, I would have been better buying a newbox..but hey wheres the fun in that