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It seems I've finally got most of Speedys little issues sorted (power loss was due to vacuum advance pipe, but he needed a full retune as well), but I'm getting a little worried about the gearbox/clutch.
I can't put into words whats causing these worries except that something just doesn't feel quite right or the same as it did. All the gears can be selected although sometimes I do have to really slam them home as for some reason it feels like they don't want to select (the rest of the time the gearbox feels looser then a whores knickers), main exception to these is reverse gear which always has had to be slammed home or it tries to slip out of gear (I've got a rover 214 thats done exactly the same since I bought it about 6yrs ago). Seems driving seems a little more noisey in kind of a rattley whirring kind of way as well.
Also sometimes if I have the clutch down and I'm coasting it I change down to a lower gear the engine noise changes and it sounds like 'engine braking' but it doesn't feel like it.
Maybe things with speedy just seem to be going too good to be true and so I'm getting paranoid, but I know when he visited the garage recently I had to get them to top up the gear box oil, and it took a whole litre to do it
So anyway I'm guessing the above probably won't be hugely useful to anyone wanting help and make suggestions, but are there any idiot friendly tests I can do to make sure everything is as it should be and that I havn't got an immenient huge repair bill coming up?
I can't put into words whats causing these worries except that something just doesn't feel quite right or the same as it did. All the gears can be selected although sometimes I do have to really slam them home as for some reason it feels like they don't want to select (the rest of the time the gearbox feels looser then a whores knickers), main exception to these is reverse gear which always has had to be slammed home or it tries to slip out of gear (I've got a rover 214 thats done exactly the same since I bought it about 6yrs ago). Seems driving seems a little more noisey in kind of a rattley whirring kind of way as well.
Also sometimes if I have the clutch down and I'm coasting it I change down to a lower gear the engine noise changes and it sounds like 'engine braking' but it doesn't feel like it.
Maybe things with speedy just seem to be going too good to be true and so I'm getting paranoid, but I know when he visited the garage recently I had to get them to top up the gear box oil, and it took a whole litre to do it
So anyway I'm guessing the above probably won't be hugely useful to anyone wanting help and make suggestions, but are there any idiot friendly tests I can do to make sure everything is as it should be and that I havn't got an immenient huge repair bill coming up?