Hi Guys, Does anyone know where I can get my Seicento 1.1s Gearbox reconditioned in the Essex, East London area?
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Vine Cottage
Bures Road
Sudbury
CO10 0NN
Telephone: 01787 372 698
Vine Cottage
Bures Road
Sudbury
CO10 0NN
Telephone: 01787 372 698
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Look in the yellow pages or on google although I recommend gloucester road gearboxes in bristol expensive though mind
probably cheaper to just get another secondhand box!
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Thanks Dave, I've tried to call that number. I. Will look them up
is the number dead?
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Hi Dave,
No it has just been ringing and no answer yet.
Perhaps this is the time to get the car stripped and modified into a rocket proppelled go cart?
No it has just been ringing and no answer yet.
Perhaps this is the time to get the car stripped and modified into a rocket proppelled go cart?
there are gearboxes on ebay for 65 quid plus 35 delivery half a days work job done
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Hi Andy
I have been looking but I have the 2002 1.1 S and this appears to have a different gearbox to the ones ive seen and besides I canb just about change the bulbs and fuses, I think the gearbox is beyond me unless I have a few weeks lol
I have been looking but I have the 2002 1.1 S and this appears to have a different gearbox to the ones ive seen and besides I canb just about change the bulbs and fuses, I think the gearbox is beyond me unless I have a few weeks lol
Could be one of the dreaded wet shaft boxes.
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there was a recon gearbox in classifieds am sure? its a yellow sei which someone is breaking which supposedly has a recon box
infact found the page
https://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=24094
infact found the page
https://www.fiatforum.com/classifieds/showproduct.php?product=24094
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Yep. I'd swap the remote selector box as well, for reverse detente, but that has to be cheaper -- even with a new clutch -- than a recon gearbag. Dry shafts will be much more reliable, too.
Only issue is that it's a Cinq box, will need either the FIAT front NS engine/gearbox mount no-one has the number for or something making up to fit.
Only issue is that it's a Cinq box, will need either the FIAT front NS engine/gearbox mount no-one has the number for or something making up to fit.
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THANKS I will contact them
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I will contact them thanks
Can you guys explain the other stuff I am not much of a mecchanic
Can you guys explain the other stuff I am not much of a mecchanic
In brief, then.
There were two gearbox types fitted to the S and SX Sei. One type is identical to the Sei Sporting Box and has conventional, grease filled (hence "dry") inner drive shaft joints. The other uses the same wet type (filled with gearbox oil) shafts as the 899s.
So, to fit one gearbox in place of the other is simple enough, but you need the shafts and cables to match the box in question. Also the clutch cable.
Easy way to tell: on the wet shaft boxes you can engage reverse without pressing down (or lifting up -- it's different for Cinq and Sei, can't remember which is which) the gearbox knob. On the dry shaft boxes you can't.
The box on offer will be a dry shaft Cinq box, so you need the gearbox, both driveshafts, and the gearbox and clutch cables. (Assuming you have the "wet" type box).
As it's a Cinq box, you'll also need the nearside gearbox mount adaptor (may have been fitted to early Seis) to attach the Sei mount to.
None of this is spectacularly difficult.
If you want the reverse detente (again, assuming wet shaft box at the moment) you need the remote box (the bit that includes the gearlever) from a Sei Sporting (or an S or SX with dry shafts), but yours will otherwise work fine.
There were two gearbox types fitted to the S and SX Sei. One type is identical to the Sei Sporting Box and has conventional, grease filled (hence "dry") inner drive shaft joints. The other uses the same wet type (filled with gearbox oil) shafts as the 899s.
So, to fit one gearbox in place of the other is simple enough, but you need the shafts and cables to match the box in question. Also the clutch cable.
Easy way to tell: on the wet shaft boxes you can engage reverse without pressing down (or lifting up -- it's different for Cinq and Sei, can't remember which is which) the gearbox knob. On the dry shaft boxes you can't.
The box on offer will be a dry shaft Cinq box, so you need the gearbox, both driveshafts, and the gearbox and clutch cables. (Assuming you have the "wet" type box).
As it's a Cinq box, you'll also need the nearside gearbox mount adaptor (may have been fitted to early Seis) to attach the Sei mount to.
None of this is spectacularly difficult.
If you want the reverse detente (again, assuming wet shaft box at the moment) you need the remote box (the bit that includes the gearlever) from a Sei Sporting (or an S or SX with dry shafts), but yours will otherwise work fine.
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Seems I may well have the "dreaded wet box" and have found a "dry box" for a different model but can get the shafts with it. Is there anything else I need to fix this in (apart from the mechanic obviously). I have pictures of the one on offer if anyone knows what the hell the differences are
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Hi Fingers that helps quite a bit thanks, I can get back to the guy who has the box and my mechanic and sort something out.
If there is someone in the local area (Romford, Essex) out there who knows about these things and can do the work perhaps we can sort something out
If there is someone in the local area (Romford, Essex) out there who knows about these things and can do the work perhaps we can sort something out
I'm miles away. But the advantage is that the "dry" box tends to be longer lived.
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Perhaps you need a day off fingers in sunny essex ; )
