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How often does this happen?
VDUBXTC - December 3rd, 2004 at 06:27 PM

I have had some gearbox trubles and have decided to chage gearboxes.
When i took the engine out the shaft that comes out of the gearboxs came out with the engine.
Is this a common thing?
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phatrat - December 3rd, 2004 at 06:45 PM

NO! not good.

jakjones - December 3rd, 2004 at 07:00 PM

must have had a little rust on the drive plate spline, sure needs gearbox work now.

Menangler - December 3rd, 2004 at 07:17 PM

If you pull the shaft out, is it broken? or has the circlip come off, the reverse gear idler moved and unthreaded the input shaft?

I have never heard of this happening before, its not too hard to fix.

VDUBXTC - December 3rd, 2004 at 07:38 PM

I have no 3rd gear or reverse in this box, so it out tosims with it and in with the replacement

toplessbug - December 3rd, 2004 at 08:11 PM

dont throw the input shaft away--- put it in the shed and you will have a clutch alignment tool:beer:beer:beer

68AutoBug - December 3rd, 2004 at 09:39 PM

or sell it on ebay as a clutch aligning tool....:):)

11CAB - December 4th, 2004 at 06:18 AM

The reason there is no reverse is because one of the reverse cogs is used to keep the input shaft attached. The input shaft has a threaded insert that screws onto the mainshaft, then the reverse cog slides over the splines on both the input shaft and mainshaft to hold them together, and then there is a circlip to stop the gear sliding off.......so the circlip has come adrift......the gear has slid back....then the shaft undone....then the shaft has come out when you pulled the motor.......yeah it happens all the time.....not.

VDUBXTC - December 4th, 2004 at 07:19 PM

oh well, there is another gearbox in there now;)

Thanks for the info guys