Issue with 5th Gear tonight

[sundog88]

Hi Guys,

On the way home tonight I was in 5th gear and then all of a sudden it seems to have popped out?! I put my foot on the clutch to put the gear back into place but I heard a grinding noise like it was teeth.

I put it into 4th and pulled away. I drove home in 4th and found out that 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4.th are fine.

When I got onto a straight with no one else around I tried to put it into 5th again and it felt like it was being pushed back out. If I kept it held in place If felt like something was tryign to push it out (a bit like the feeling of broken teeth on a cog).

I put it back into 4th and drove home.

So... any ideas what this issue could be? a New gear box needed? or is it syncromesh or and joins that may have come loose?

Any ideas at this time would be great as a little desperate.

regards
Mark B.

 

[frank]

sounds terminal to me mark

 

[sundog88]

Thanks for your reply frank... any idea on what it could be though? Anything fixable?

Also, the last couple of days it has felt a little to easy to pull out of 5th gear. I only had to lightly touch it and it would go into neutral.

 

[frank]

if it was just slipping out i would suspect the indent spring/ball, or rear engine mount if jumping out on power or lift.
but if it is hard to engage i would suspect a bent selector fork or chewed syncro

 

[sundog88]

Hi Frank... If I remember when the clutch is down its not hard to engage but when lifting the clutch it was it pops out..

a benk fork or chewed syncro. would that not mean other gears would be the same? are these parts easy to replace?

 

[frank]

paul (pollyp) has stripped his on his blog mark, you remove the ring of bolts and lift the casing off the clusters, but the selector mech is a bit of a chinese puzzle tho !

 

[Guy]

Possibly why Paul's the only one who's managed it so far... .

 

[will930]

haha guy!

on my other car had this same issue but with 4th! and i swapped out the box, not hard on these though not at all

 

[sundog88]

Hi guys, thansk for your help so far on this..

I've put a shout out on 247spares for a delivered gear box and also tapped up a mate who i'm waiting to here back from about a gear box.

 

[frank]

bear in mind that the pre-face 1.0 and coilpack ones are different, and the 1.3 one is higher geared eh mark

 

[sundog88]

Thanks Frank... Mines a 2000 Reg (W) 1.0 Celebration

 

[frank]

Thanks Frank... Mines a 2000 Reg (W) 1.0 Celebration

gives only 2 yrs production to source the correct one eh ! (mid 98 to mid 2000 1.0 )

 

[sundog88]

yeah - i'm sticking to 2000 as I think i've found one.. thanks for the heads up on the differences though