hey my recently acquired frst has a bit of a dodgy gearbox i think, for some reason you can go from 5th straight into reverse. i dont know whether it is hte box or linkage or whatever????
but i need help as very soon im gonna have no reverse gear

 

Hmmmmmmmm............i bet you, a jam tart, the gearbox has gone in the past, and its had an early BC box fitted, the early ones have no gate in the box, its down to the linkage......so with no gate in the box or linkage.......voila (crunch crunch)

 

how would i tell other than the obvious thing ive stated?

 

Part number maybe (no i dont know the codes )

 

doh, well ill have to go out and get dirty it seems, but it still feels as though there is something wrong as trying to move between the gates its quite stiff. i mean when its in neutral

 

Getting dirty it is

 

thanks for your help
lol

 

Check the hole through which the clutch cable cable goes on top of the gear box. One single hole -> early BC box with no gate. Two alternative holes -> later type BC box with a gate for reverse.

 

At least someones on the pulse

Completely forgot about that good idea

 

ahhhh answered my question, this is why i sometmies go from 5th to 4th and hit the reverse gear....cuuurrrruuunnncccchhhh, i thought my gbox was fooked...but i guess its not then......only just had it re-built, thought me mate had made a boo boo..lol

 

Lee it can't work that way round on your car unless you have a MK4 linkage........although its not un-common for the linkages to be so loose on a MK3 that the gate doesn't work PMSL

The linkage in that orion of mine was SOOOO loose when going from 5th to 3rd, i would move the stick across, back up and go back into 5th

Fuckin awesome things on MK3's are linkages