The source of my problem
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Basically after having my car on the road briefly i drove it from milton keynes upto coventry. Wizzed around for a few days then i broke down - unable to select any gears.

After stipping my engine i have found nothing wrong with the clutch other than high millage (i have ordered a new one as im changing to pre verto with uprated diaphram and plate)

I noticed lots of wear on my gearbox housing around the idle gear where i had shimmed it slightly too much, so i stripped the box to move it to a nice new casing.

Once i had stipped the box i found all 4 of my baulk rings were fucked!

The question is why? I built the box about 1100 miles ago using full s/c gear set by tran-x and i DID use my old baulk rings as they looked perfect.

Is the material different on my s/c gears compared to nornal ones? Shall i just put new geniune rover ones in and suck it and see, or change to fancy ones:

http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?pid=37304

Cheers,

Dan

it is because there is no molybedenum coating on tran-x gear sets, so they eat baulkrings

Team Racing

I have ordered a new set of rover ones - do you think these will be up to the job?

I've never had a problem with minispares or rover ones. Did you measure the weargaps before fitting?
By you admitting you used 2nd hand ones - it could be that these have worn differently to the last gear they were fitted to - reducign the weargap rapidly.
OR your moly has been taken off the gears and the weargap reduced.
A new, genuine ring is a good test. You should have at least 40 thou Weargap, ideally 50-60. When seated on the cone and a light finger pressure applied axially, the ring shouldn't be too easy to tip - if it does, you have an angle mismatch, and rapid wear will follow...

Hope it's good news...

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