My 100HP has been in and all the linkages and cables have been checked, so the only things that haven't been checked are the internals (the oil level has been checked btw). They say there isn't a fault. I'm getting the impression that they don't care about it and just want to get rid of me. I tried speaking to a guy about it (the person that had driven it previously) and it was obvious that he wasn't interested. This person appeared to be very knowledgable, but it's starting to look like he told me a load of rubbish.
I suspect that they usually keep customers quiet by telling them lots of technical things that they won't understand. Some of the technical stuff doesn't always seem to be relevant, so either they aren't quite understanding what I was saying or they just think I haven't got a clue what they're talking about.
There was something that I really couldn't understand, but it was very interesting (if it's true). Apparently the 1st and 2nd gears share the idler gear so you can't select 1st unless you're moving very slowly. In the next sentence he said 1st shared the 'ring' with reverse. I always thought that the idler gear was only used for idle and reverse (on most gearboxes), is this correct? What kind of 'ring' does reverse have? It doesn't have a synchro, so is there another kind of ring? For me 1st gear seems to work just as well as the other gears (at any speed). I agree that it will wear the synchro out if I select 1st at higher speeds, but it should work until that wears out. btw I don't normally do this, so it's not as if I have worn it out.
For me it feels like a synchro problem, but I can't understand how it would be on every gear. When I get the fault it sometimes feels like two spinning things are coming together at different speeds and I can feel their speeds matching. I might change the gearbox oil and see what kind of metalwork comes out.
I suspect that they usually keep customers quiet by telling them lots of technical things that they won't understand. Some of the technical stuff doesn't always seem to be relevant, so either they aren't quite understanding what I was saying or they just think I haven't got a clue what they're talking about.
There was something that I really couldn't understand, but it was very interesting (if it's true). Apparently the 1st and 2nd gears share the idler gear so you can't select 1st unless you're moving very slowly. In the next sentence he said 1st shared the 'ring' with reverse. I always thought that the idler gear was only used for idle and reverse (on most gearboxes), is this correct? What kind of 'ring' does reverse have? It doesn't have a synchro, so is there another kind of ring? For me 1st gear seems to work just as well as the other gears (at any speed). I agree that it will wear the synchro out if I select 1st at higher speeds, but it should work until that wears out. btw I don't normally do this, so it's not as if I have worn it out.
For me it feels like a synchro problem, but I can't understand how it would be on every gear. When I get the fault it sometimes feels like two spinning things are coming together at different speeds and I can feel their speeds matching. I might change the gearbox oil and see what kind of metalwork comes out.
