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Well one was beheaded by previous owner and stump left in the hole. I have been trying to devise ways to drill it out and replace. Meanwhile I have a little G clamp holding it together securely. When I got the car it was held on by one screw and lots of insulating tape. At the time there was...

Ahh that cleared that one up. If it quacks like a duck... Is this system serviceable? Likely to need replacement etc? I will look in my Haynes tonight for info.. maybe I can get a scrapyard replacement..

No I haven't greased all the points yet.. pressure of work and finding the will to crawl under the car again.. it costs me more in clothes than a garage would charge for the job lol.... Now I haven't got a total mental image of the mechanism but I imagined that the drive shaft engages with...

Hi sonic You'll have to forgive me if I'm slow.. I never did a gearbox before.. lol but well I didn't take the clutch off just waggled the gearbox drive shaft back in the hole and flogged it up again. I did have some concerns that struggling singlehanded I might have let the box hang on the...

actually it is more of a serious vibration than my post suggested.. the whole car rattles and the gearstick just conducts it more... holding it still the dash still buzzes and rattles... seems to be the engine or something It just ain't right. Could it be camshaft bearings?? I mean could...

Bit of a followup... My gears are stiff to change compared to my other K10. The main problem though is that there is a helluva vibration coming up the gearstick. It isn't a lubrication problem as there is plenty of oil in the box. Is there something else that could lead to excessive vibration...

I am happy to say I put it together at noon yesterday and just flogged for 260 miles on the motorway and it was spendid! The driveshaft problem was overcome by using something larger than a toffee hammer to drive it home. A tad stiff and I was worried about mushrooming the end.. but it went...

Hi Keith I was recently faced with the daunting task of putting a belt on.. with accompanying visions of the valves mangling. In the event I just followed the Haynes manual and used the timing marks on the cam shaft wheel and fly wheel as instructed and this eliminated the most serious...

Hi Ed, Yes it proved ok in the end after a bit more brute force was employed. I was glad I dismantled though as I found the reverse gear on the shed floor.. oops. Managed to heave it onto the car and just need one more drive shift putting in. I found that part extremely difficult.. one of em...

Thanks for that. I am suspecting some problem in the re-assembly. It works fine until the cover goes on. This will bring up the shaft ends to the proper position and perhaps revealing the misassembly when the slack is taken up. I've cracked the box twice more since to try and pin it down. The...

In the end I retarded the timing a little and it went away. I suspect it was overadvanced a tad.

I did the box. It was not tooo bad. I took pictures along the way. I eased the drive wheel out and fixed it. Good God.. it was quite hard out of the gearbox... utterly impossible with it in .. that's now clear. Seeing it is a lot clearer than a diagram. For one thing the two side gears have...

Thanks for that Ed! I had come to the same conclusion after finding the service manual online.. very useful that chap!! I just want to undo the minimum to lift the final drive out and rebuild.. so... following the medical dictum "first do no harm" I have to figure out what bits to undo to...

If dismantle the box and lift out the differential.. is it a disaster? I read about issues like preload (???) About which I have no idea. I mean.. if it is a simple.. remove.. replace... reassemble.. then I might go for it. I have the old box for practice. But.. if there are additional...

Yes the rags were to keep the oil in. The short lengths of broompole are clearly necessary... as I have now learned. There is just enough room in the differential case for the side gears to fall out of position.. (with the thrust washers).. ahh yes the real cruel bit is that is not enough...

Argh God... what have I done?? I opened the old gearbox... and quickly deduced that I'll never be able to get the side gears back in... without lifting out the differential assembly... I can't do that it looks too major for me. So.... options? Gynaecological fiddling of side gears back...

I have a 5 gear K10 1.0L. The box is shot so I got a replacement and figured I'd swap it. The operation looked tricky but do-able. I have lifted boxes in before but usually with my dad.... I found the single handed hoiking quite a damned struggle... Then... it all got worse... the...

I was having my MOT done and idly passing the time twiddling the gear knob of my five door 1990 1.0L K10... i er noticed it had 5 gears!! Wish I'd known that before the 400 mile round trip to Somerset.

I took it to local shop for mechanic to listen.. he simply pulled off the vacuum line and it stopped. He concluded that the advance mechanism is broken and I need a new distributor. I don't want to question his expertise but it could also be that the timing is too advanced perhaps? When I got...

I can hear a new weird knocking noise on my K10.. it is more like a tapping. Sounds like the left hand side of the engine. Not wheels.. it will do it when still. It seems to need to warm up before it starts... it is too slow to be a piston etc.. it is regular like a metronome and in...