panda4x4sisley
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hi all, bit of a rant but...
after me and a friend have spent 2 days working on the panda 4x4, its pretty much at the same stage as when we started.
basically we took the gearbox off, then put a new clutch in, and changed the propshaft, made the gearstick not so wobbly, tried to fit a 'new' gearbox back on but realsied after putting it all together there was a gap left - one of the main mounting bolts that joins the engine to the box is next to the started motor, its a stub that sticks out, well on the old gearbox it has a stub, on the new one it doesnt it must have come off when it was taken off the car it was on. soooo, we thought it wouldnt matter, but after much faffing we could not get the box to join flush to the engine at that point. the other bolts make it flush but not at the back, by this time the car was basically back together so we tried to start it...
urgh, it made a horrible sound.
nowi had to just leave it at my friends and come home on the train, dont have another day off work to mend it for a week or so.
what i wanted to ask was, has anyone encountered problems like this on a geabox change, i am worried that after we take off the box, tap a thread, insert and liquid metal a threaded bar in to match what the old box has, then it may still not lie flush? is it strange that its flush on the pother bolts but not tis one, like its wonky? or does the bos just stretch and the final bolt will pull it alll together?
maybe this is a little jumbled because im going over all the possibilities in my head... reelistically all we need to do is drop the engine again, take the box off and make sure its exactly the same as my old one, then refit it and hopefully with no gap.
:bang: itt all seems really difficult now!
after me and a friend have spent 2 days working on the panda 4x4, its pretty much at the same stage as when we started.
basically we took the gearbox off, then put a new clutch in, and changed the propshaft, made the gearstick not so wobbly, tried to fit a 'new' gearbox back on but realsied after putting it all together there was a gap left - one of the main mounting bolts that joins the engine to the box is next to the started motor, its a stub that sticks out, well on the old gearbox it has a stub, on the new one it doesnt it must have come off when it was taken off the car it was on. soooo, we thought it wouldnt matter, but after much faffing we could not get the box to join flush to the engine at that point. the other bolts make it flush but not at the back, by this time the car was basically back together so we tried to start it...
urgh, it made a horrible sound.
nowi had to just leave it at my friends and come home on the train, dont have another day off work to mend it for a week or so.
what i wanted to ask was, has anyone encountered problems like this on a geabox change, i am worried that after we take off the box, tap a thread, insert and liquid metal a threaded bar in to match what the old box has, then it may still not lie flush? is it strange that its flush on the pother bolts but not tis one, like its wonky? or does the bos just stretch and the final bolt will pull it alll together?
maybe this is a little jumbled because im going over all the possibilities in my head... reelistically all we need to do is drop the engine again, take the box off and make sure its exactly the same as my old one, then refit it and hopefully with no gap.
:bang: itt all seems really difficult now!