hello, i wondered whether anybody could give me some help regarding my gearbox
back in december i took my car offroading, and to cut a long story short i misjudged some water and sunk the front end of my (98 ford) maverick. since then i have be having what i think are gearbox issues: my gear changes in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th all grind when trying to engage them, however, as you may of noticed, 4th is totally fine. after i got home from my 'adventure', i said to my dad that i thought water (and mud) had got into my gearbox. he said though that there was no way that any could of go in there, after all its all sealed up. so we (and several other people) put the gear changes down to a damaged dragging clutch. about two weeks ago i had the clutch changed, and when the bloke who did it removed the gearbox breather he noticed some emulsified oil in the breather which suggested there was water in the g-box. he then drained the oil to find, yep you guessed a small part of the offroad site in the gearbox. after the clutch change, it stopped slipping but the gear changes were still nasty. fifth was fine until christmas and its slowly got worse since then. there not hard to get in when the car is static or when the revs are low (well is crunches), they just grind a lot.
whats irritating is on the drive home from the site, all gear changes were fine, maybe a little noisy, but fine. ive bled the clutch twice in a hope that that might be the problem but in hasnt. i have been told to change the oil again, to wash the last of the crap out, but i cant see how that would help matters. i believe i have worn/damaged something on the syncro side of the gearbox, but without dismantling it i obviously cant be sure. if that is the case i would prefer to have the gearbox refurbed, but if its going to cost more than a second hand box then i might aswell do that.
i think ive covered everything, has anyone got any comments/suggestions on this. any help is appresiated, thanks, tom
back in december i took my car offroading, and to cut a long story short i misjudged some water and sunk the front end of my (98 ford) maverick. since then i have be having what i think are gearbox issues: my gear changes in 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th all grind when trying to engage them, however, as you may of noticed, 4th is totally fine. after i got home from my 'adventure', i said to my dad that i thought water (and mud) had got into my gearbox. he said though that there was no way that any could of go in there, after all its all sealed up. so we (and several other people) put the gear changes down to a damaged dragging clutch. about two weeks ago i had the clutch changed, and when the bloke who did it removed the gearbox breather he noticed some emulsified oil in the breather which suggested there was water in the g-box. he then drained the oil to find, yep you guessed a small part of the offroad site in the gearbox. after the clutch change, it stopped slipping but the gear changes were still nasty. fifth was fine until christmas and its slowly got worse since then. there not hard to get in when the car is static or when the revs are low (well is crunches), they just grind a lot.
whats irritating is on the drive home from the site, all gear changes were fine, maybe a little noisy, but fine. ive bled the clutch twice in a hope that that might be the problem but in hasnt. i have been told to change the oil again, to wash the last of the crap out, but i cant see how that would help matters. i believe i have worn/damaged something on the syncro side of the gearbox, but without dismantling it i obviously cant be sure. if that is the case i would prefer to have the gearbox refurbed, but if its going to cost more than a second hand box then i might aswell do that.
i think ive covered everything, has anyone got any comments/suggestions on this. any help is appresiated, thanks, tom
