A mate of mine owns a wrecking yard and does a lot of mechanical repairs which attracts a lot of the desperates with not much money to fix their cars.The usual fix for a gearbox with bad synchros is atf.
Terry Rudd wrote: > That brings back memories with a 4 speed hybrid box that we used to build > before 5 speeds became fashionable. 180B 4 speeds were plentiful, so we used > to swap over the 1600 4 speed extn housing and output shaft on them - > although they still had a monkey motion shifter, synchro wise they were > great boxes for their time but they had a few snags, one of which was they > wouldn't accept 3rd gear over 6k and a bit revs, not good for the big ends > that. We used ATF in them and that worked well except in extremely hot > weather as the changes got a bit notchy - ATF was great in the extreme cold > though. I think the availability of synthetic gear oils has all but done > away with the use of ATF in manual boxes as I haven't heard of the practice > being used for some time now. > > regards > Terry > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of andrew smith > Sent: Saturday, 7 September 2002 9:25 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Oil for R180 open diff? > > I had similar problems with an old FJ20et box that didnt like going into > second > after reving to 7 in first.It eventually got worse and cracked the > selector.I > fitted another box which wasnt much better then someone told me to use the > redline oil.I couldnt believe the difference it would just go straight in.I > could even get it back to first from flat out in second which is great for > handbrake turns in motorkhanas. > > Terry Rudd wrote: > > > Chris, > > > > The standard oil for a R180 (open) is HP 80W90 and capacity is 900ml. > > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------
