Wheelers Workshop
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Hi Steve,Having 2 balls and a spring in the Detent hole was probably the non select fault, easy to do if you get distracted at the wrong moment, and will effectively lock it in or out of gear as the spring will be coilbound with the ball in the detent, no chance it is retracting to allow movement.
A warning to all of us, is to physically check you get all the gears on the bench before fitting, The irony would be it could have been checked in the car and repaired in situ. Definitely one to learn from.
HOWEVER. The noise can really only be coming from the 5th gear pair, It's quiet in all the other gears, meaning all the bearings and gears are ok, just 5th pair and only when transmitting drive, they are quiet when idling round when the box is in any other gear.
One gear is fixed to the shaft, so that should be OK, for any unwanted movement, the other runs on a needle bearing, so it's possibly worn, but highly unusual. Leaving the gear teeth themselves.
If it's 4 wheels away from a road test, I would try it, mainly to see if it is only noisy on drive, or is it on coast also.
@Andyquadra joked about it being straight cut, but it covers what is being heard here.
I'm sitting here racking my brains trying to remember if it's possible to fix the fixed gear backwards, I'll need to dig a pair out and see. If it can then it has mixed the coast and drive faces up. It should be noisy on both drive and coast.
That's as far as my thinking takes me.
Paging @Wheelers Workshop Have you got any ideas Dave????
I listened to the video clip and 5th gear test running , that does not sound happy at all. As I have to guess why its noisy , then I am thinking 4 things maybe.
1 Mismatched gears?
2 No lubrication?
3 Rotating top gear rubbing ? is there any swarfe?
4 Did I read that a straight cut 5th set have been fitted, they are noisy as you know.
Its inevitable but I can only suggest that the end cover is removed and stripped again to put eyes on the 5th gear end parts and operating fork, bearings etc This is one of those odd issues, and our 353 box 5th detent problems come to mind.
Sorry I have nothing more constructive to suggest.
Cheers
Dave