Honestly it’s ridiculous the whole situation was completely stupid, i can laugh now but at the timeAnd see if you can include the robbing scaffolders advert, they usually hang one on the job, then we can all ring up for estimates for all the non existing jobs we are about to undertake.
also everyone now refers to the car as ‘the obstruction’ rather than the range....
Thanks Phil that would be great will let you know once I have stripped the box down, getting it started tomorrow,Pete,
You’d be very welcome to chuck your casings in my parts washer when you come back to get the clutch pistons removed.
Phil
Taking your time is the key and especially hard on your own as the bloody thing weighs a tonne.Yeah it didn’t need the strap I just would have felt safer using it, as when your laying down with the gearbox balancing above your head unrestrained, you feel like your one wrong move away from disaster! Still haven’t done anything on the gearbox yet
, my soarers exhaust dropped off and then I discovered they are obsolete... and my nearest exhaust shop want £1050 to make me an exhaust for it (considering welding one up myself out of 409ss) oh and my wife’s car randomly the seat belts no longer retract!! And the boot won’t stay shut as it has an electric catch/clamp so she is driving round with the boot roped shut and saggy seatbelts.... i haven’t decided if I’m cursed or if the house is... maybe both....
Is it the transfer box bolt shown in the phot? They are like a torx head bolt, if so try using the ring end of a 10 mm ring spanner, i think they are all the bi hex type and then linking a bigger spanner together with it to get some leverage. When i removed the transfer box with the transmission still in the vehicle i found that i couldn't get a socket on a few of the bolts to torque them up so i just did them up FT.
Oh yes that’s the one!! Took bloody ages to get it out all the others weren’t too tight but typically the hardest one to get at was solid! Had to really go at it with the chisel to loosen it, didn’t think about trying a spanner as didn’t want to risk stripping the head off it! But will definitely use that to torque it back up.... I never bother with torque settings (naughty I know) I just go off the old days, I have a Pittman’s guide to rebuild my old Ariel motorbike (never got round to doing it yet!) and in that the official torque settings are..... hand tight, nipped up, and dead tight!!! Love it! That’s how it do everything now!! Probably why I snapped one of the wheel bolts on my soarer last time I did the breaks..... if anyone was watching me then.... I punched the floor as the bolt snapped and head butted the wheel arch.... I was not best pleased!! Genuinely thought I had broke my fingers!
Nah I don’t think a horse would be a good idea.... me in jodhpurs...... not happening, plus horses break down too and you can’t fix them with a 10mm spanner and a blow torch, I need something with zero servicable parts..... like a bus passAbout that horse............
Groan !!!!!!You can’t eat a bus pass though when you have finished with it
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Decided against the bus pass and bought a 1994 p38 instead.... the guy was scrapping it!! So for the grand some of £90 it is now mine.... it’s mot until April 151k and is an absolute shed!!You can’t eat a bus pass though when you have finished with it
But I think it’s great! The back brakes are fooked But sorted that off fleabay for under £50 it uses more oil than fuel (leaks from everywhere) but it will keep me on the road until the l322 is up and running again plus it has a tow bar which the l332 doesn’t and it only cost an extra £8.24 a month to add to my RR policy! I was getting sick of having my wife take me everywhere!!
I know!!! Honestly I wouldn’t take it on with having Phil on side... I may look like I know what I’m doing but really I’m just unscrewing stuff and pulling bits until they come off! Phil is a legend he could name every part number for each tiny part of the gearbox and strip one down blindfolded I reckonYou realise your a very lucky boy having privileged access to Phil's nous AND workshop.
It really is like something from an alien ship, I often wonder how someone designed it.... like who sat there with a blank piece of paper and thought that thing up!!! Seriously! Auto boxes came from some sort of higher power I’m sure of it!The insides of manual box`s are scary enough, but these are witch craft, that's some complicated casting and internals
Well done for taking it on, good luck with the next stage
