discovanbiker
New Member
Hi Geezars! I'm new to this forum and thought I'd start picking some brains. I have just bought a commercial series 1. Its in pretty good nick, or so i thought!
After a few weeks of ownership, the clutch started to slip towing a trailer up a hill. Oh well, win some loose some.. new clutch went in! While the g/box was out, I had the garage to check the gear selector bush out as the gear change was as slack as goverment policy. It turned out that the bush and circlip had been swallowed by the g/box. These were replaced and the oil drained. Apparently the oil had a few 'lumps' in. The chief mechanic said that it was ok as the gearbox was noise and crunch free and changing ok. So it all got put back together and returned to me. Happy days!
So, at the outset, outlook was good good. Brand new gearchange and another 100k on the clutch. BUT... after 8 miles of B road driving, I found that when stood running in neutral, on tick over it developed a horrible rattle. I thought it was the clutch thrust bearing or releaes bearing ( is that the same thing?). So back to the garage it went and now they say that they will strip the gearbox out and check the clutch on warranty. Fine. But the thing is, the real thing of it, is if they changed the gearchange selctor bush which is on the bottom of the gear lever, would the gearbox have been open and could they have dropped some crap in there that would cause probs, or are they muppets ( tricky.. ) or what could the prob be? The noise goes when you press the clutch in, and come back when you release it. When in gear moving there is no obvious noise. Only when stood does is sound all rattly and ouchy in neutral with the clutch engaged.
Any ideas?
They seem to think it could be the shaft that takes power in from the clutch ,some bearing maybe. Would I be right in thinking that this is thier problem cos it used to work fine even with a loose gearchange before they did sugery?
many thanks in advance for ideas, comments, help or a spare gear box!!
O.
After a few weeks of ownership, the clutch started to slip towing a trailer up a hill. Oh well, win some loose some.. new clutch went in! While the g/box was out, I had the garage to check the gear selector bush out as the gear change was as slack as goverment policy. It turned out that the bush and circlip had been swallowed by the g/box. These were replaced and the oil drained. Apparently the oil had a few 'lumps' in. The chief mechanic said that it was ok as the gearbox was noise and crunch free and changing ok. So it all got put back together and returned to me. Happy days!
So, at the outset, outlook was good good. Brand new gearchange and another 100k on the clutch. BUT... after 8 miles of B road driving, I found that when stood running in neutral, on tick over it developed a horrible rattle. I thought it was the clutch thrust bearing or releaes bearing ( is that the same thing?). So back to the garage it went and now they say that they will strip the gearbox out and check the clutch on warranty. Fine. But the thing is, the real thing of it, is if they changed the gearchange selctor bush which is on the bottom of the gear lever, would the gearbox have been open and could they have dropped some crap in there that would cause probs, or are they muppets ( tricky.. ) or what could the prob be? The noise goes when you press the clutch in, and come back when you release it. When in gear moving there is no obvious noise. Only when stood does is sound all rattly and ouchy in neutral with the clutch engaged.
Any ideas?
They seem to think it could be the shaft that takes power in from the clutch ,some bearing maybe. Would I be right in thinking that this is thier problem cos it used to work fine even with a loose gearchange before they did sugery?
many thanks in advance for ideas, comments, help or a spare gear box!!
O.