bearing gong in my gearbox
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hi it Steve again I now taking my clutch out and stripped the engine and now I have found that a bearing has broke in the gearbox it still works and turning it not jamming up or nothing the bearing that has broke is on the left hand side on the main shaft I think it is where the speedo is connected to and a bit of the gearbox is holding the bearing in place and just to the left had side of the box is where the diff is connected to a little cog any help would be grate

pics will help a grate deal Steve

Main double roller bearing. Needs sorting before you use it

It's quite common for this bearing to fail, your looking at £50 for a new RHP quality one. It might be worth rebuilding it with new bearing throughout (£150) From experience I would also always change the idler gear bearing on the gearbox and transfer case just to be safe.

Edited by alaskanow0 on 18th Sep, 2013.

Class C 3rd Place Avon 2011 14.18 @101mph

I have tried to put them on but not having it don't know what's wrong

You need to host the pictures elsewhere such as photobucket and copy and paste the image code. Thats what i do anyway. As the others have said this bearing needs to be changed as a minimum!

The doible roller is in the centrre web, .the one at the end near the first motion is a large single roller. I think that the bearing in question is the double roller

thank everyone it is the double roller all I need to know now is it easy to fix what do I have to do I know I have got take the diff out and how do you lock the box it my first time at doing a gearbox any info would be good thanks

Get a haines manual for a mk 1 or 2 metro. They cover gearbox refurb in good detail