Thanks for all the feedback guys :thumb2
It's taken me a lot longer than I wanted it too but with having the luxury of the girlfriends car at my disposal, I've not been forced under the car when the weather was bad or I was knackered from work which is likely to be the times I would have lost my composure and rag and got stuff wrong
It's certainly been a big job in terms of what had to be removed but I'm not scared of the job now and would happily attempt another one should I have to in the future, not the nicest of jobs to do on the floor I agree but if I had a ramp I would still have needed extra hands whereas on the floor I was able to remove the gearbox on my own and roll it back and forwards with ease :naughty
Another job that has cropped up that I'm going to have to sort it my clutch pedal, the issue only really became apparent after driving my granddads truck for a few days. I've noticed that my pedal bites the clutch and then just stays there whereas my granddads bites and then seems to "spring" back bringing the pedals resting position in line with the brake and accelerator.
I can toe the pedal back into a position parallel with the other pedals in my truck but as soon as I move my foot away it drops back down again, it's quite annoying and was present before the clutch swap.
Am I right in thinking that this is the bush issue? I've not yet done that job on this motor :nenau
Last job now is to fit the interior bits back in and the rubber weatherproof gaiter and collar etc, it ain't half loud in the cab with that off :O
It drove lovely but there was a bit of clutch slip in 3rd when giving it the beans, I'm going to put this to needing bedding in, seemed to get better the more stick I gave it, could have been contamination on the pressure plate even I suppose.
I'm a happy boy anyway, I'll continue to monitor and update with anymore findings
Nice theory!!!! That does make sense, I could feel a lip on the flywheel before I fitted the 3 litre one but we are talking thous. I presumed after a while that it would wear itself down to mate the diameter of the 3 litre plate :thumbs
Cheers matey!!!! You've been quiet, I hope that means there's been plenty Skyline action :sly :thumbs
My guess is that the transfer lever only goes forwards and backwards so would be the square part. As the gearstick goes left right forwards and backwards, I'd guess the round part.All is well in the land of 3 litre life :thumb2
No more slip, biting like a good 'un, not turned the PowerChip up yet though :sly
I'm now using the truck again daily but still need to sort out the damn clutch pedal return issue, hopefully soon into the new year I should have a new bush to replace the knackered one and hopefully the pedal will then return to it's correct resting point.
Lastly, I haven't quite finished re-fitting the interior trim around the gearsticks as I've been unsure as to whether I have the rubber gaiter installed the correct way around?
I've just looked through Alan's thread as I didn't take any reference pictures of it's orientation as in the grand scheme of things I thought that it would be intrinsic clutch internals that would have stumped me not this :lol
Looking at the picture that Alan took, the gearstick is in the square looking side and the transfer lever comes out of the circular??
48 mins on google maps then, cool
Been a difficult month but hopefully, hopefully, will be running by the end of January with a few more other jobs done...
