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I went for the bottom in the end. I'm at 6 hours so far with the OSF balljoint to bolt up and ns shock/hub/driveshaft to bolt up. Only trouble is, I'm worried after forgetting to unbolt the rack, I might have pulled on it too hard - I found both halves of the column pulled apart.

Awesome - I'm on it. I will raise it a bit for now, I think.

I'll have a look at that. The box has had a lot of abuse since the new suspension - lower to the ground, more vibration, not to mention the drive shafts hitting the chassis legs (just as you warned me :P )

Thanks, but I've already sourced a box. If it turns out to be no good, I guess I'll rebuild my box into the new casing.

Do you mean a 130, ie. 182 box? I think that was what they did with the 182 to stop the diff circlip issue? If so, yes.

Runs from up along side what I presume is the reverse switch and down along the bottom of the casing Not sure what caused it. Theres the odd scuff and scrape, so I guessed it was probably an impact of some kind. That said, I tried a temp bodge with Chemical metal and the chemical metal has...

I wasn't after a full health check, just any characteristics of some issues that may be noticeable with the box off. The frustrating thing is, I know my box is good if not for the crack in the main box housing :( I'll chuck it on and take my chances before stripping the old one down to have...

Is there anything to look out for with a second hand gearbox before refitting? Any obvious signs of damage/wear?

I prefer if I can stay off the floor if it is to be done on my drive way. I know I have a subframe bolt with the captive nut gone for a start.

Someone mentioned to me a while back that its possible to get the gearbox out of the top. I'm a little sceptical, but anything that's saves a bit of time (and rolling around on the floor) sounds like something worth investigating to me. So, is it possible?

Read up on how to find Polaris. In the Northern Hemisphere, all stars will appear to rotate around it, so I just lined up the top of the spire with Polaris :)

My first post is a little bit of a catch up from me. My favourites so far this year; All taken on a mixture of Sony NEX-F3, Canon 650D and Canon 6D.

That looks identical to the one screwfix sell. If it is, it does the job just fine.

I bought a Screwfix one the other day - I think it was under £25 and I think its great for the money. Being BS marked, it has to meet a certain level of accuracy (good enough for me) and it saves me buying the wheel brace I needed, too! What's difficult about setting it? I thought it was easy...

Has anyone had the chance to compare one of these to the R26?

I haven't read the thread, but do I recall seeing somewhere that these have a quaiffe diff fitted? If so, is it all of them?

Because it was an excuse - a tipex cover up ;)

Its a PHP game that has an updater written in C that runs every 30 seconds. If I get some free time later, I can have a crack at compiling it.

What are you trying to compile?

The default mysql install won't have the correct headers AFAIK. Get homebrew or Mac ports and install mysql through one of those, then you should be good!

What is the environment?

It can be done just fine without genuine tools.

It needs the space to unpack it and run through the update process.

Wiped off to find the crack :/

Well, I found the culprit :/

I'm not having much luck with the Clio recently! There's a lot of oil under the car and on the gearbox. On the gearbox, its soaked the selector, ns driveshaft seal, subframe around that area etc. I'm unsure if its gearbox oil - its golden and clean (which my engine oil certainly is not), but...

As already said, if the sliders move freely, just sounds like pads too tight. The larger surface area ds2500s need the ends filing down on the pad - there are guides if you do a search.

Are the sliders free?

This is surely a case of the mechanic being a r****d in general rather than not understanding the F4R though, surely? Who would do it without checking TDC and timing marks? Unless this hole is at TDC for 2/4? Which would be ridiculous?

Have you paid yet?