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hi all

I have just brought a 1995 LWB vitara with the 2.0L V6, manual. It has a few issues
1. as far as I can tell from reading up on it, it has a worn input shaft bearing in the gear box. where can i get e new bearing in wellington?

2. it has rust at the base of the front pillars. best thing to do with that?

3. kind of rattles when it starts, is this the timing chain?

thanks in advance for the help

no disrespect mate but I hope that things got good tyres because it'll probably be the only good thing about it, good luck with the repairs it sounds like its pretty worn out

dan88 wrote:hi all

I have just brought a 1995 LWB vitara with the 2.0L V6, manual. It has a few issues
1. as far as I can tell from reading up on it, it has a worn input shaft bearing in the gear box. where can i get e new bearing in wellington?

2. it has rust at the base of the front pillars. best thing to do with that?

3. kind of rattles when it starts, is this the timing chain?

thanks in advance for the help

for the rust window out and cut the rust out
chain could be the hydrolic tensor they get gummed up hard
i took mine out cleand them came out all good

cheers

Clutch release bearing. Autostop or bnt are generally the cheapest.
Probably a good time to do the whole clutch while its out

How many km's? The manuals on these a recon at some stage in their life and the timing chains can prematurely fail. Interesting comment about the tensioner in one of the earlier posts, defiantly worth looking into it.

Another thing on mine that rattled when cold were the hydraulic lifters, I changed the oil (use the correct type) and this alleviated the problem.

its done 255000km

Try an oil change and use good oil then reassess the situation. I'm pretty sure the timing chain rattle occurs at most engine speeds and the tappet rattle will occur more it startup unless the lifter is completely stuffed.

hey buddy cool car when they are going good ! lots of power!


if you are near the hutt valley go see Richard at bruce tompson motorbodys in seaview just near the main roundabout hes top bloke dosent sell u stuff that isn't needed

the timing chains are a bit of a night mare there are chains within the system

this week at work we priced a kit including all chains up at 2500-3500 depending on what was needed

deffinatly try that hydrolic tenstioner

let me know if u need a hand

greg

hi all

managed to pull the whole gear box out of the vitara, what a mission! spent about 3 hours trying to get one exhaust bolt out. thinking that with the amount of effort to get the gearbox out i might aswell replace the clutch, thrust bearing and all the bearings inside the gearbox and transfer case. i was only planing on repplacing the bearings in the gear box.

thought or comments?

im keen to come help if u want a hand haha and drink beers if that's on the cards too haha

greg

thanks for the reply, got the gearbox back in, would be great to get someone else's opinion on the vit, its got some issues but not sure if thats just how vits are. midway through installing an alarm at the moment to keep the local scumbags at bay. but looks like i might need to do the timing chain soon which will be a real mish

Drop me a text man 0272012916