corsafreak
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: --- NorthEast ---2.0 16v powered
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taking the car down to darlington to have the exhaust fettled this morning, nice and steady like as it's still running in.
pulled onto the A1 from bradbury heard this almightly clunk,so when i pull off the slip road from darlington i take a look and find a nice hole punched into the gearbox inspection cover and oil me new gearbox oil on the road ..
must have picked something up in the tyre tread which has flicked into the gearbox ffs.
the car has only done about 10 miles from being finished get the valver put in. now all my cleanly painted gear box and engine bottom end are covered in oil.
getting it sorted tomorrow but farking unlucky.
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andypsgwide
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Registered: 13th Mar 03
Location: newcastle
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sorry to hear that. you must be well gutted
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sxi boy
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
Location: north east Drives: clio 182
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i had a hole in my gearbox, cost me £650 for a full re-build
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corsafreak
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: --- NorthEast ---2.0 16v powered
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quote: Originally posted by sxi boy
i had a hole in my gearbox, cost me £650 for a full re-build
inpection cover thats holed £9 or free if you blagged one like me
gasket 2L of vaux gearbox oil £19
bit of labour to change and top it up.
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Karnage Corsa
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Registered: 4th Nov 02
Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
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Nightmare mate u must be gutted so whens it going to be up and running propperly ?
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sxi boy
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
Location: north east Drives: clio 182
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quote: Originally posted by corsafreak
quote: Originally posted by sxi boy
i had a hole in my gearbox, cost me £650 for a full re-build
inpection cover thats holed £9 or free if you blagged one like me
gasket 2L of vaux gearbox oil £19
bit of labour to change and top it up.
my hols was in the gearbox casing, the gearbox had chewed up a driveshaft aswel so needed whole new rebuild
lookin back, i shudda just bought a 2nd hand clio 16v box frm cliosport for £100
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corsafreak
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
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quote: Originally posted by Karnage Corsa
Nightmare mate u must be gutted so whens it going to be up and running propperly ?
tomorrow i hope,i took it to exaust-a-fit in darlo who are fitting a 2" ss system with a large middle box and janspeed ss backbox i supplied.
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M2RTY
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Registered: 25th May 01
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mate if ure about darlo let me know!
at least your engine wont get rusty lol
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corsafreak
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: --- NorthEast ---2.0 16v powered
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it seems the diff has fallen apart and shot through the top and bottom of the box,drove it back from darlo with no bottom on the gearbox . new f20 goin in on saturday.
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