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Hi Brian, yes it was a 1mm shim between the front bearing and gear on the input shaft.

Thanks, it actually makes logical sense when I think about it afterwards, and wish I thought of this myself, just shows with old gearboxes, you have to think outside of the box for the solution, workshop manuals are fine when parts aren't 60 years old.

Bit of an update, the grinding noise got worse, took it to a local mechanic early April, he had it for some months trying different things. I insisted he take flywheel off and machine everything to ensure alignment was right, which he did. Had it back for a few days, the grinding gradually came back...

Thanks for the encouragement Stephen, I actually think you are right there, I probally could dismantle and put together a crashbox blindfolded 🤣 The challenge is what to do with parts 60 years old, had the car over 20 years and seemed to be easier to work with parts back then. The gears I reckon sta...

Interesting week driving to work, expected it to be much worse to be honest with putting EH input shaft back in for now so I could drive it to work. Definitely a lot better albeit not perfect, bearing in mind would jump out after about 500m if I didn't hold gearstick in top gear before. Driving 30km...

Thanks Rob, interesting article. Thanks for the offer, really appreciate it. I think though being that I have put a different bellhousing on already, will be interesting to see if same issues occur. Both faces looked in good condition when I bolted together and free from burrs, and I put a straight ...

Either that, or will see what box is like that I am getting couriered here 5/4. That will be an original EJ box.

No damage done Rob, stopped driving it and left it in garage all week till I could pull appart again. Every tiime I get a mechanic to do something it gets f***** up seriously. Anyway a mate has a good press, will take it there and see if this one can be fixed, just concerned there will be burrs unde...

So this weekend after taking off gearbox, figured out pretty quickly what went wrong, even on bench gearbox wouldn't change gears, noticed when tried to push into 3rd with cover off bearing came out of gearbox a bit. Then noticed bearing retainer had pushed further back along shaft allowing movement...

A couple of updates, as been a little while, will do in 2 posts, so last weekend I had already replaced bellhousing, and I put a new clutch kit in, interestingly the one the mechanic put in 4 years ago was the 220mm one and possibly that wasn't an issue I would say, but anyway my new one is the stan...

Thanks for confirming, I really thought that from when I changed one years ago, someone else put this one on but I doubted there was one on it.

I put the clutch slave cylinder back together what I thought made sense, being that it all jumped out without getting a chance to see what came out. But checked my workshop manual, and it shows a circlip (expander ring), can't find one anywhere in the work area under the car, should there definitely...

Didn't progress a real lot this weekend, certainly not as much as I hoped, perhaps just overtired, just got the bellhousing changed over and new clutch kit on, worked all day Saturday but made a couple of bad calls which set me back, started again this morning as engine was supported on jacks, had t...

Thanks Rob, that gives me a couple more things to consider in the morning, I hadn't thought of the stud sitting pround, I checked the gearbox cluster gear shaft wasn't sitting proud of gearbox and that was okay. Now that's another idea for the shim, one way or another I think I've got this. Progress...

You're like a bloody oracle Rob. I did think after typing my post the shim had to be in the top lip, so went and tried with the feeler gauge method a few times ealier and it seemed around .012. I might try tomorrow too with the callipers, but I think it will be close to right. Which means a .010 shi...