Drove the bare-bones car out of the garage onto the drive for the first time after the rebuild. Brakes mostly ok, just need a bit of adjustment. Clutch feels OK – bit grippy but that’s to be expected.
Engine starts and idles fine but needs coaxing to get power at higher revs – it dies otherwise – think this is timing.
The big issue is the gearbox I rebuilt. Some of the time all the gears are there (1-4, R). But then they all disappear, to be replaced by a bit of a rattling noise. Bit more fiddling with the gearstick into/out-of gears and then they returned.
So there is something fundamentally wrong – I presume with the main gearbox, but still open to it being an issue elsewhere.
From what I can tell there is no inspection hatch into the main gearbox – is there any way to see what is going on in there?
I guess I should open the inspection hatch into the transfer case, to check that the issue is up stream.
Engine starts and idles fine but needs coaxing to get power at higher revs – it dies otherwise – think this is timing.
The big issue is the gearbox I rebuilt. Some of the time all the gears are there (1-4, R). But then they all disappear, to be replaced by a bit of a rattling noise. Bit more fiddling with the gearstick into/out-of gears and then they returned.
So there is something fundamentally wrong – I presume with the main gearbox, but still open to it being an issue elsewhere.
From what I can tell there is no inspection hatch into the main gearbox – is there any way to see what is going on in there?
I guess I should open the inspection hatch into the transfer case, to check that the issue is up stream.
