how do you know it goes into gear ?? are you using the regular gear lever or selecting directly at the box ?? need an expert to chime in and say if there is 1 shaft that could cause this problem .................. seems odd anyway does it make funny noises in 1, 2, 3 or 4 ?

There are a few around us here in the centre of France but I guess that's cos it's sort of mountainous - 700 metres for us but the highest point in the area is around 1900 metres

If you didnt open the box or anything else silly like that then the selector linkages would seem to be a likely candidate as Gary said.

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So at that price it becomes less interesting to rebuild - providing its a good rebuilt unit you can get the pipes to clean are everything between the turbo outlet and the inlet manifold - replace if you want / need otherwise remove and wash out with petrol and dry before refitting. To prime...

You can simply replace the unit BUT dont forget to clean the oil out of the pipework and intercooler or you could have a runaway when you fire it back up Also you need to prime the "new" turbo with oil before starting the car after the transplant. The other option is to consider replacing the...

Are you sure that the cam timing is correct and that the pump timing is correct ??

thanks where the fuel pump is located - could be on its way out ????

Mine went in with no problems

Hope you didnt pay for all these useless goodies :)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm some problem with multiple posts ???

Just came across this thread - actually my first impressions on opening the site this morning were ..................... yuk :) realistically i now think there is too much empty space on the screen although maybe if i looked i could change something to fix that ?????

Lucky you when we went there we couldnt see mount cook for the low clouds ....................:)

Ahhhh - but no petrols so you cant realise your dream of getting an unreliable one :)

It's a BMW engine - I guess they can help

Nice Seats Where can they be bought ?

cleaned out my MAP sensor on a FL1 Td4 - is it really necessary to remove the engine mount to get to the little blighter ???????

whats wrong with the green one - looks great why not do up the silver one - then you will have 2 !!!

I forget what the piece looks like now You get good access from the right hand wheel well Scrap yard jobby???

I was going to suggest that a fly took a dump in there but decided against it ......