Recent content by Mark.B

That's good news, might speed up the process of getting it back together a bit. Thanks again for all your help, although there might be more questions to come yet 😂

Bit of a delay as I had to make a puller for 5th gear. You were spot on about the broken piece being from the 5th gear selector fork, the plastic end is missing off one side of the fork too!

I'm going with that option too 😂 Next question is are the outer casings interchangeable between the JC5 129 and JC5 130 boxes? If they are I think my best option is to get a normal 172/182 box and some new bearings and just rebuild it providing I don't find any other damage. I can't find a JC5...

I've only got as far as loosening off the nut and bolt holding 5th gear on so far but I noticed a big lump of metal down near the diff so I made the hole a bit bigger to get it out 😂 It's aluminium so guessing it's from the casing somewhere? It's pretty mangled so I think this is the piece...

It still drives in all gears, including reverse but I suppose a tooth might have come off 😮

Well it's out now, I would normally have taken it up my mates workshop and used his ramp but with this lockdown had to make do with the driveway and a few trolley jacks ☹ Anyone want to guess what happened before I whip the casing off, something has got wedged somewhere I reckon to push the...

I wouldn't even attempt it, that casing is fit for the scrap bin only 😉 Just need to find a cup gearbox now with the speedo cable drive, or failing that is the only difference between the 2 boxes the speedo drive? If the other half of my casing is ok I could always get a normal 172 box and...

I've only got sellotape, will that do 🤔 Luckily I was nearly home when it happened, surprisingly it still drives fine and will select all gears so I'm curious as to what part of the box has escaped through that hole. Might take it off later in the week and get the box apart for a look.

So not even super glue will work then 😂

I think it might be 🤣 I noticed a very faint noise appear like a brake pad on the metal from the front of my 172 cup earlier on, I carried on driving for a few mins to see if I could hear where it was coming from. I heard something ping off the exhaust then the noise stopped, then I could smell...

Stuck tape all over my rear window 🤬

They seem a bit expensive even though they are fully fitted, I have access to a tyre machine though so probably out of touch with fitting prices! I always buy my tyres from here...

Replaced another injector! I was just going to just buy 3 as I had one go a couple months ago so thought I might as well just do them all now but Euro car parts only had 1 on the shelf.

Had this on the drivers side of my 172 cup a few months back, it'll definitely be that if they are still rusty. I had to use some wet and dry on a couple of the terminals to completely remove all the corrosion as a quick clean did nothing. Once I'd done that the fog light bulb stopped lighting...

The Papa & Nicole adverts from the 90's always seemed to be more about the people than the car, guess they worked though. We've had Lesbians in a Clio, a drag queen and a Twingo, at this rate it has to be a transgender Megane driver next surely 🤣