BEWARE OF THIS SELLER THE BOX WAS FAULTY AND WOULD NOT SELECT 4th GEAR!

HE LIED THE BOX WAS UNTESTED AND NOT USED FOR 1100 MILES BEFORE REMOVED


Originally Posted by adamski frst
hey mate did you use or check this box previous to sending it to me ?

we wound the car over yesterday to build up oil pressure and fuel pressure between winding over neil engadged it in 4th to check the box, and it was not sounding good at all, however we didnt get a full chance to check over completely due to a pin hole on the new fuel rail we just bought so we had to stop winding over after about 1 minute so that has to go back, but neil is worried that something is not right it the box.

We should have a new rail this w/e so should be able to turn it over / start it up this weekend and know more but neil is worried something isnt right.

Adam

i havent mate no? but was fully stripped down and checked??

story with the box is it was fitted to iains car when he bought it from neil, and even when he bought the box there was a slight crunch from 2nd to 3rd but neil told him that mike rainbird had said not to fit a quickshift as it would be beating the syncros, so iain removed the box from his car and the quickshift knuckle.... handed it into to our local gearbox place called charles butler transmissions, they stripped the whole box and said that there were wear on 2 off the syncro mesh and also a few bearings were tired so he replaced all the syncros and fitted a full bearing kit, which cost him £780 in full he has a reciept for it aswell, then he fitted it back to his car drove the car to central day and back which was a 1000mile round trip and he said on hard driving he was still getting a slight crunch, which he spoke to dave (mallard escos) and he told him that it wasnt right and to hand it back into the place who rebuild it, he also phoned bara to ask and they said it could be a slightly bent selector fork, so he handed the box back in to charles butler which was with them for 3 weeks and he was getting pissed off with car bring off the road this was where i said i would buy the box off him which i paid £1500 for, he then went and bought and paid £3k for a bara box, i got the box back from them saying they had fullly stripped it down to check and said that they fitted yet another new syncro mesh on 3rd gear as they couldnt see any problems with the box what so ever and put it down to a (dodgy/faulty) part ???

so im guessing the box should be spot on as iv never had it fitted since, iv just phoned iain and hes going to send me the number over for charles butler off the reciept, let me know when you get a chance to fully test the car with the box fitted

NOW HE TELLS ME ITS MY PROBLEM.....