IM BACK ...

Right, story is as follows...

two weeks ago leaving work to go home (I'm in the RAF so work 80 miles away from home, commute weekly) my wrecker I smoke around in, the mondeo, looses all its gears. I get recovered the 80 miles home by the AA, as I have a carfull of stuff I need to get home. I assumed it was the gearbox, and was going to scrap the car as it is shit anyway ...

Mate says there is a common problem on the Mk2 mondy, where the gear selector roll pin falls out, easy fix as you can take it out from the top of the box, without dropping anything . So I rip it apart, and lo and behold it is the rollpin/bolt.

Mate fixes it free, and says it will go, but there is a chance that the debris will hit the crownwheel, and it will go between that and the casing and put a hole in it, but if you are lucky it will have stuck to the magnet in the bottom of the box.....No easy way to try and get it out, so can take the chance it will be ok as its not worth the time/hassle of dropping and draining the box to see if it comes out..

So put it all back together, and done about 300 miles without a problem, but tonight it decided to exit the box on the M4, as I was on my way to Brighton to pick up an exhaust for my saff ... Was just going into guildford when it went, so turned around and made it back to Lyneham ...

need a new car now though, saves me putting it through the MOT next month .. Gears are hard to get, but seems to be driving ok if a little sluggish, might chem metal the hole and dump some oil in it, see what happens

Couldn't be fucked waiting 3 hours for the AA and the 56mph drive back, the car cost £300 in march, so don't really care about it!!