+1 ^^^^^^^^Smells "fishy" doesn't it @Pedro the fishy man ?
Who is doing these rebuilds? Are they competent? What guarantees did they give? Why did you choose them? Were they recommended?
I've only ever had a rebuild done once and it was £1300 (including a TC rebuild) and the box never failed again.
Sounds like incompetence to me.
Presumably they’re referring to the planetary assembly, which is a ‘sealed unit’ in as much as the planet pins are pressed into the carrier and it therefore can’t be disassembled.
So this is what he’s talking about is itPresumably they’re referring to the planetary assembly, which is a ‘sealed unit’ in as much as the planet pins are pressed into the carrier and it therefore can’t be disassembled.
Phil
Can you buy this part ?
Thankyou very much you have been most helpfulI’d be surprised if you could find a new one for sale, and if you did it would be phenomenally expensive. Ideally you would have to replace the two annulus gears as well, because they bed-in to the micro-geometry of the meshing gears over tens of thousands of miles (noise issue).
Epicyclic failures are unusual in the 5L40-E, and transmissions which have failed (for a different reason) are readily available on eBay for £200 or so. That would therefore be my suggested source of a replacement.
Phil
