Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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This is the 2nd time a gearbox has gone on my 106 gti, but the old one went due to old age. This one went due to santa pod sticky surface and my crappy mounts.
Nailed it off the lights at santa pod today and it went bang! shearing the gearbox mount from the gearbox.
oh poo..
(this was all the oil left at the end of the strip)
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should do to recover from this situation?
Shall I just buy a new 2nd hand gear box and get it fitted? or shall I try to repair this one? I think the internals are completely fine! How much to get a new 'part of the bell housing' ... the part that's damaged is the closest to the engine? or is that part of the engine?  I can't remember what the box looks like off the car, it looks like its the part with the clutch in that's gone, but then I didn't think that had any oil in it? so why would blowing a hole in it there cause oil to come out?
The thing was caused (I think) by uprating the top engine mount to group n, but not the other 2 (I was told by people this was ok and not needed).
The gearbox has twisted on one side and not the other and sheared the mount
Gutted 
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
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new box, keep the cogs for spares.
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
Location: Kent
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skipping over the text why have you fisted your gearbox ?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I think it's because he tried to pull away while bouncing the car off of the rev limiter 
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Kano
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Registered: 29th Aug 04
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Was the top bolt in?? Seen a few that dont have it in because its a pain to get to.... box shouldnt have sheared like that though..
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Butler
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Registered: 2nd Jun 05
Location: London
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Rallye gearbox?
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
Location: Maidenhead, Drives: VXR Arctic
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Stop buying french tat
 j/k paul get a new box 2nd hand
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nickyboy01
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
Location: Oxford-ish
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Getting a new box would be easier, if anything like a Vaux F20 you can get em for pennies
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Corsa E-Tec
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
Location: Stevenage Drives: Leon Cupra
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my mate went through 4 gearboxes in 4 months when he had one.
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Jason Iles
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Registered: 19th Jun 01
Location: Bristol
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Stop buying french tat
Dam beat me to it
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
Location: Hammersmith
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Bloody hell paul, thats fudged.
Get a second hand box mate, so do you think its been down to the recent new engine mount?
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TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: Nottingham Drives: VW Tiguan
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There was a lad on SSC who had a super charged VTS runing about 250-260.
He went through gear boxes like they were sweets in the hands of a fat kid 
[Edited on 30-10-2006 by TNM]
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Sly_SRi
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Registered: 9th Apr 04
Location: Reading, UK Drives: Corsa C
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how'd you manage that? 
[Edited on 30-10-2006 by Sly_SRi]
Corsa C Z20Let
Black Sleeper Turbo Project
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JM_16v
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Registered: 17th Oct 05
Location: Essex Drives: GLC63S
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lol sorry to hear it
did u get any gd times
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
Location: Hammersmith
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Am i right in say that the engine move is what caused it to pull on a fixed mount and just tear a great big hole ??
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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yep.
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Robin
yep.
wow im kinda learning slowly.
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Worse part is I got crap times (well 14.9's) due to excessive wheel spin off the line.
My terminal speed was similar to sly_sri's (93 / 94 mph) - so if I hadn't of wheel spun so much I may of done similar times as him (14.4 - 14.5's).
On the one run I got a great launch, I thrashed a CTR off the line and then the gear box went bang.
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Robin
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Registered: 7th Jan 04
Location: Northants Drives: Clio 182 Cup
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you've just had a new clutch havent you?
have you told the garage that the gearbox went bang after they took it off?
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Mattb
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Registered: 2nd Feb 03
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i remember at PVS the 106 gti that did the same thing just before i was going to run... a weak point of the car maybe??
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Reedy
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Registered: 11th Apr 04
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quote:
Originally posted by Mattb
i remember at PVS the 106 gti that did the same thing just before i was going to run... a weak point of the car maybe??
106 gti's just dont like to be modded. If its kept standard its far better.
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