fitting gordini turbo gearbox

[gordini83]

gents, i have tried to fit the gearbox to the engine on the car, twice, and failed. As i push the splined gearbox output shaft into the engine it gets to a point were it wont go any further, as if the output shaft is too big for the spigot bearing.

I've aligned the clutch both times, quite accuratley, once by eye with a dowel and once with the proper alignment tool, neither helped.

I got a new spigot bearing from a helpful contact in hereford (wormbridge) to go in my new crank from mecaparts. it looked the same size as the one i took out my old crank but i didnt measure it.

This has destroyed my morale in finishing this 7 year project...

fully embarassed and a little heart broken if anyone can help you guys can.

 

[sparkie]

i had the same problem with my le car turbo last week.
after spending 3 hrs trying to get it on this method worked on the first attempt.

undo the clutch cover bolts, so it holds the plate 'just' ie so you can move the plate with your fingers. centralise the plate the best you can.
then push the box into position - using the old up down, left right wiggle.

bolt the box up.

then rotate the flywheel so you can see the cover bolt at the top of the gearbox cut-out where the cam pully pokes into. tighten the bolt then repeat with all others.

done!

 

[mrdini]

i had this problem before , box wouldnt go home that last bit, my problem was lining up the splines on the input shaft to pass through the clutch plate , i got the box as far up to the engine as it would go then got a spanner on the cover bolt through hole in the bellhousing and rotated the flywheel to allign the splines and it went on.

 

[gordini83]

thanks guys, that helps. I did try the loose bolts method but it still wouldnt go on enough to start tightening them through the bell housing. I will try it again now i know it can work (i find sometimes just a lack of confidence can cause jobs to fail). i must have put 7 hours into this so far so this time i'm going zero tolerance.
Because the clutch housing bolts are a wierd m7 metric fine bolt, my local fastner place only had the bolts and not the spring washers. They did find some flat washers that fitted though so my plan was to fit them and put red, or possibly the weaker blue loctite on them before screwing them into the flywheel... not sure if this ok or whether it's a bit cowboy...
yeeehhaaa!!
I just want my car to run!

 

[gordini83]

this method worked

thankyou.

cool calm and collected is now the way forward.