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Ripped the gearbox outa Satalites Vitara ready for new bearings

235,000k's of open road driving showed up with a noisy 5th gear. Clutch and fly wheel etc are fawkn MINT still. Its amazing the difference between a Jap import and a NZ new Vehicle thats done long open road k's!!!

Taz wrote:

Oh hell!

juz wrote:

Taz wrote:

Oh hell!

Yeah. Wasn't my achievement though, but thought it was worth a mention.

Boat was the only thing that saved him from rolling as he went off sideways, but it was also what pushed him off sideways, so I wouldn't really thank it all that much if I was him

Not the best start but was a great day.

wow, nice photo Taz, where is that? (the pretty one, not the unfortunate boat one)

Took the Paj up Thompsons in the weekend, was good fun

Mongoose wrote:wow, nice photo Taz, where is that? (the pretty one, not the unfortunate boat one)

Its actually the exact same spot as the crash.

Looking up the upper Rangitata.

Remounted the winch in the back, and painted the bracket Started to make up the new gear box mount which will sit higher up so wont be a bull dozer anymore

DieselBoy wrote:Ripped the gearbox outa Satalites Vitara ready for new bearings

what a cool sticker

spent another great weekend in welly



kaikora in the background



PR





man it was wet

well after spending the last couple of weekends getting the new engine in and the new front springs in thort i would go for a wee test run down at the waimak only to pell a tyre off the bead and smash a cv bugger but the new engine runs mint

Went for a spin round the south coast on sat was bloody good, saw a lot of the guys off here coming back from a trip round there, and could see all the tracks through the sand.

On the way home my 5th gear crapped itself. Gotta love Terrano gearboxes. This weekend project, pull gearbox, hope like hell it is just a bearing which I can replace easily!!

If anyone has any hint or tips feel free to fill in this neewbie!

Cheers,

-Sketchy Racer

The mighty 70 series failed a warrant. Hub seals are leaking rather badly into the brakes awnsers my question of y i cant stop after i put it into 4 wheel drive haha

Sketchy_Racer wrote:On the way home my 5th gear crapped itself. Gotta love Terrano gearboxes. This weekend project, pull gearbox, hope like hell it is just a bearing which I can replace easily!!

If anyone has any hint or tips feel free to fill in this neewbie!

Cheers,

-Sketchy Racer

Hate to bring bad news. When my old terrano lost 5th it had broken the 5th gear off the main shaft. When you get it rebuilt use high quality roller bearings. Nissan used ball bearing ones and occurding to the now retired gearbox guru that did mine that was the problem with the box. Mine was a completely different box ofter the fix and never gave me greif again.

Took my Lj78 for its first off road (since I got it, infact looking at it could be ever) with the club to Waiuku, I was evey happy with it. Handled different than the R50 Terrano, seemed to be higher geared, but something I will get used to. )

meatc wrote:Hate to bring bad news. When my old terrano lost 5th it had broken the 5th gear off the main shaft. When you get it rebuilt use high quality roller bearings. Nissan used ball bearing ones and occurding to the now retired gearbox guru that did mine that was the problem with the box. Mine was a completely different box ofter the fix and never gave me greif again.

Cheers for the heads up on the roller bearing!

Well, I got the gearbox out and apart tonight, lucky for me 5th gear is still intact, and it was only a collapsed bearing. Unusual though as the bearing that has failed is the one that is on the input shaft, which all gears drive through, but it only shuddered in 5th gear. Weird.

New parts tomorrow, then back together on friday, then BEER time