It’s gearbox time
by Darren on Jun.25, 2009, under Build
Gearboxes are often-forgotten items on cars – they just do their job (and a simple but important one it is too), unless, of course, they explode. When they do, it means getting another one, and I’d decided that this being the most expensive part of the car, it probably should be done properly. Having procured another gearbox to use the cases from, I was left with a bit of a challenge – it was filthy. Not a “it’s got a bit oily” filthy, but a “10 years of use on an unloved car” filthy. Hideous and corroded. And I wanted it to look very nice for two reasons – firstly, so it would look nice, and secondly so when it was built there was no chance of any foreign matter getting in there, and so I could see everything was going together perfectly. I’ll cut to the chase; let’s just say that it took a hard day’s work to get the cases from their caked-with-road-and-car-filth state to what you see below:
Nice shiny gearbox case, all ready to build
Rather lovely, I’m sure you’ll agree. OK, not really, it’s just a gearbox casing. But the important thing is that when the oil seals and other minor parts arrive tomorrow, I’ll have everything ready for the gearbox to be built; normally this would happen on Saturday, but it’s Paul’s wedding this weekend, so that won’t happen. It’ll be done by the weekend after (and not just ‘cos this is my least favourite part of the car to work on), and then, of course, it will be time to rebuild the engine, in the hope of finding two things: More oil pressure and 20 horsepower!
