Hi,
Just wanted to have a rant about the gearbox and share my pain with everyone.
I know I own a D21 and this was to be expected, but yesterday on the way home from our Easter long weekend adventure the gearbox went in the nav. The old girl made it to just over 400, 000.
for the last month or so the gearbox had been making a whirring noise, which I put down to thrust bearing (oil etc was fine and sounded like my other cars thrust bearing issue). On the way home yesterday, about 70km from home the nav went crunch and started shuddering with loud crunching noises in 5th.
After pulling over and doing some testing, we found every gear except 4th was making a horrible nose and shuddering while driving.
so drove home in 4th, everything was ok there. but it looks like I'm up for some more DIY repairs on the old nav.
depending on the weather over the next week I should be able to drop the box, pull it apart and see what went wrong.
found a rebuild kit on eBay, $375ish - might be the way to go. otherwise ill be in the market for a gearbox/wrecking Navarra.
Cheers for reading
Just wanted to have a rant about the gearbox and share my pain with everyone.
I know I own a D21 and this was to be expected, but yesterday on the way home from our Easter long weekend adventure the gearbox went in the nav. The old girl made it to just over 400, 000.
for the last month or so the gearbox had been making a whirring noise, which I put down to thrust bearing (oil etc was fine and sounded like my other cars thrust bearing issue). On the way home yesterday, about 70km from home the nav went crunch and started shuddering with loud crunching noises in 5th.
After pulling over and doing some testing, we found every gear except 4th was making a horrible nose and shuddering while driving.
so drove home in 4th, everything was ok there. but it looks like I'm up for some more DIY repairs on the old nav.
depending on the weather over the next week I should be able to drop the box, pull it apart and see what went wrong.
found a rebuild kit on eBay, $375ish - might be the way to go. otherwise ill be in the market for a gearbox/wrecking Navarra.
Cheers for reading