Quote from: unfazed on 06 December 2014, 01:22:52 amQuote from: Dead Eye on 06 December 2014, 12:11:41 amDidn't noggy say he had set it with his wife doing the measurements? I would assume that means he was kitted up and sat on it...Missed that bit, Laden sag would want to be 25 to 30% of the fork travel which according to the manual is 130mm which would make the laden sag around 30 to 40mm.25mm would only be the start point of static sagI Think my brain is sagging trouble is that coz my bike has a side stand only then I didn't know what the bikes normal sag was without me on it..........so I guessed that it was 10mm and then we went with the 25mm with me sat on it....that's an accurately guessed 35mm...innit yes I know I hate this bike oh and yes I had my kit on.....although admittedly I didn't quite feel the need to actually wear the helmet so I held it on the tank
Quote from: Dead Eye on 06 December 2014, 12:11:41 amDidn't noggy say he had set it with his wife doing the measurements? I would assume that means he was kitted up and sat on it...Missed that bit, Laden sag would want to be 25 to 30% of the fork travel which according to the manual is 130mm which would make the laden sag around 30 to 40mm.25mm would only be the start point of static sag
Didn't noggy say he had set it with his wife doing the measurements? I would assume that means he was kitted up and sat on it...
Became a chimney sweep for the morning and cleaned the chimney
So... life went bad for the MG over the weekend...The new gearbox is mostly shot - god damn seller lied about its state...Here is the damage to the cover surrounding the oil seal for the nearside driveshaftDetailsZSZSAfter a bit of investigative work on the old box I figured I could just swap over the casings and life would be good. This did not work. I struggled for a bit trying to get the cover off of the old box, eventually resorting to Google where I found that there is a circlip hiding behind a bolt that needs to be released. Did this and off popped the cover with little effort. I proceeded to remove the new box from the car to do the same thing... but no. Not a chance. Fucker won't budge. I've done everything exactly the same as the old box but the cover still only lifts about 20mm and no further.Stupid circlip...DetailsZSZSOld gearboxDetailsZSZSThe real concerns are that there is some not very nice stuff leaking out of the box that happens to include metal filings... a fair few of them... and then, just to add salt to the wound, suddenly I hear tap tap tap tap as a load of ball bearings decide to make a bid for freedom. Looks like the bearing carrier on the offside of the diff has given up on life, which just so happens to be the one I can't even get to without dismantling the entire thingThen I get a call from the estate agents. They aren't impressed with my vehicular maintenance. So, after all this, I give up. Old box, despite its issues, is going back on. I'll admit that I've made a bodge of this project from start to finish... but you live and learn. I look forward to having a nice 2+ car garage in the future where I have all the space I need, heating, lighting, tools where I can do whatever the foc I want
up against it deadeye .....been there myself a few times....going back many,many,many years when i was your age i had a mk1 escort with v6 3.0 ltr essex engine...one hell of a car.. ....living with my parents and no garage meant working outside,it had a fierce appertite for rear diffs,gearboxes and head gaskets all fixed outside in all weathers,engine was a tight fit so to remove the gearbox that was engine out time,towards the end of my ownership engine in and outs were done in a day with time to spare .....one car i shouldn`t of sold ...time to walk away for a while matey,things will be easier when you go back......is the estate agent going to let you put it back together ?.........as iam a little [size=78%]older than you,i now have my own garage at the bottom of the garden with light and power,and just about all the tools i need....it makes it a lot easier,no need to tidy up at the end of the day,just close the door untill tomorrow,iam half way through a job on mrs reds car its cold and frosty and wet outside but no problem for me ..........you`ll get there mate [/size] .........pm to self,stop reading noggys long posts
Ha ha Red ya swine! GWhy say in a few words what can be said in 50 words eh ..........too much time on my hands mr nog, bike put away today untill next year, missing it already......anywhos, how long till we hear the patter of little nog ?
No way, the car is staying! That is unless I blow up the engine when I try to start it... that would be an entirely different story...However, what it does mean is no LSD for now and I return to my potentially problematic 5th gear and shifting issues. I live in hope that tidying up the clutch and associated mechanisms might have fixed it since the gears don't look too bad on the old box. Unfortunately, this is yet another item that it is out of my experience, so I'm not 100% sure what I'm looking for...For the future I think the plan is to reinstall the old box and get the car back on the road. If my finances are looking better next year then I'll be moving out of my current place in to something like a 2 bed house with a garage. I'll have much more freedom to then take the box off and fit the LSD by either repairing the new box, or sourcing another one or something along those lines.It's definitely frustrating and hard work, but I do really enjoy mechanics at the end of the day... it never feels like it, but I guess it must be true if I keep putting myself through all of this. Having a full on work shop would make life much easier. I'm pretty please with my new ratchet spanners - they've made life sooo much easier on a few scenarios already
Dodgy 5th gear - it didn't like to engage without crunching most of the time unless I matched road speed and revs. I got pretty used to this so it became less of an issue. I also experienced heat soak, or something like that, with the clutch hydraulics which meant that in summer if I did anything under 50 for more than 15 minutes it became very hard to change gear. On very hot days in traffic it almost got to a point of having to pull over and stop because you just couldn't change gear.There is information that the bracket that holds the slave clutch cylinder isn't up to the job, but also that the clutch release arm may need attention to free it up. The latter I have done whereas the former is something I will look at if I continue to experience issues. The hydraulic system itself is sealed so there isn't much you can do with it other than replace it. You can get a new system that isn't sealed which allows you to bleed the system adjust the pedal height in the car, but this mostly affects the other models, not the ZS 180.Apologies for the long replies, but there's a lot of research and history that has lead me to my decisions :P The new box also had the LSD on it which would have been a nice upgrade. So, in the future I will be rebuilding a gearbox in some fashion :P
The linkages seem fine to me, I'll take a more thorough look in a few days when I take another crack at it.The system is completely sealed - no bleed nipples anywhere. As far as I am aware, there is something you can do which involves rebuilding the master cylinder with some modified components to allow the system to be bled.On both boxes I have tried selecting gears with the box off the car and they work ok From what I've read recently, the 5th gear synchro may be interfering with the casing going back on... or something like that I found a complete rebuild guide to the PG1 box on the Rover Tech forums so that will come in handy later on