As above?

What sort of money are we being charged to rebuild these box's?

Mine is slightly stiff getting into 1st gear, no whines or crunches on up or down shift.

Would like a rough price to compare with locals to make sure I am not getting my pants pulled down

thanks

Mark

 

I had mine refurbished , Ł209 in Chelmsford. The diff is going to him soon too!

 

Try using G.E.A.R.S they're good and very resonably priced.

 

Massive difference in them two prices above. Would they only replace what was needed or is the synchros cheao enough to get the lot changed?

 

OK I shall take a look, thank you.

Anymore guys?

 

No these are the guys I'm on about.
http://www.gears.tv/index.html
They recently rebuilt my diffs and seem very knowledgeable and helpful, best advice I can give is call them and see what you think for yourself.

 

email sent, thanks

 

I can dig out my receipt i,m sure i had 1 syn ring replaced and a couple of other small parts , cleaned and inspected and reassembled .

 

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Interesting thread, I'm looking to get my diff and box recon'd in the not to distant future, got play in the diff outputs and 3rd to 4th at high revs was an issue so guessing syncro.

Any more info please post

Ginger


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any update on these prices for a gearbox rebuild.

 

i had mine done at GEARS, they replace all the rings and bearings for Ł500 if i rember rightly

 

CTS seemed expensive when I phoned a while ago - they got loads of good publicity on here IIRC, so probably bumped the price up lol.

 

emailed GEARS and the reply...........


To rebuild your gearbox with all new bearings, syncro rings, selector fork pads, syncro ring springs, clips and shifts. seal etc etc is Ł500 plus delivery

An exchange box is Ł650, these are more expensive as they have hub hubs through out


so not bad

 

What's have hub hubs mean?

 

Have you tried Bara Motorsport?

That's who did mine.

 

i would like to know this also.

 

what did you pay mate.

 

k and n transmissions in preston charged Ł350 last time i had one done he knows gearboxes inside and out and has done rally and race boxes too

 

I do a lot of these boxes and to be honest you dont know what the costs are before its in pieces. Sometimes the 5th gear wont come off without grinding; then you will need a new one which of course mean higher the costs. Very often the dogs on the gears and selectors (hubs) are worn out due to rapid gearing / abusive cossie owners, hence these will need to be replaced.

Any workshop who do these transmissions will (hopefully) tell you this; if they dont and only fit a cheap 200p overhaul kit + labour costs then most likely the box will fail very soon. It wont help just fitting new syncrorings when there are 3 parts to the syncro mechanism. (gear, syncro hub and syncro ring)

 

Can't remember tbh, I just dropped it off to Marco and he got it done for me.

 

Bara charge Ł500 for a T5 rebuild.
Rich

 

Pm Marco Polo on here mate he can get then sorted

 

i suppose the best thing to do is email a couple of places, i know places were they only fit what is worn (no good in my opinion) its best to get a full overhaul if in doubt ask for the old parts back!

 

Like they won't be able to find a bin full of random old shite to show you to make you think they've changed it all lol.

 

well if you think thats what they are going to do - dont use them!! there has to be some trust in some places!!