ahhhhh effing gearboxes

[celyth]

hay all, just spent hours chanigng over a gearbox and fitting new seals and clutch, everything went back on ok eventually, took it for a spin and realised the speedo wasnt working so i went n got my gf from work and everything was fine, about 50 mile journey, got back and put it in reverse and now it's stuck there, i removed the speedo cable and noticed the cog at the end has been swallowed by the gearbox :S have tried brut force and dissconnected the linkages and tried to move the arm on the box but no joy,

any1 got any suggestions?

i presume the plastic cog off the speedo cable has made it jam into gear or summat?

cheers
cel

[monzajake]

The speedo cog will just get munched up, but tbh it's worth draining the fluid out of the box as little bits could cause some damage to seals.

Have you disconnected the clutch cable, rocked the car with some one in it pulling it out of reverse ?

[celyth]

allo, cheers for the reply, yeah i thought it wouls get chewed up, have tried everything cept for takin out the box n stripping it down..lol, which looks like i might b doing next week, g/f's only got 2 days work then a weeks holls so will have time to play about with it, got another box, the one that was on it but it doesnt go into gear very well, mighjt have to do for now though, just a pain coz i fitted new seals to this one..lol

ahwell