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Come on, give us some engine bay porn shots! TBH it's not all that impressive to look at - I've deliberately not bothered to go for a big chrome air filter, or 'dress up' the engine in any way. _IMG3943.JPG In fact I'm even sad enough to have painted the filter housing the same shade of grey as the...

ChrisJC wrote: ↑Thu Aug 31, 2023 5:49 am Wikipedia makes interesting reading:

I wonder how long that's been up there!

Correct era, and the right part of the world. It's actually an early Hyundai Stellar, which I've tried to keep as a sleeper. 20230524_153343.jpg With the early ones being Cortina based, I was able to use a 2.3 Cortina axle with the 3.09:1 Capri diff, so running gear fairly straightforward. Engine wa...

Well I'm slightly intrigued as to what car that is! Any guesses? It started life as a 1.6, and there was never a factory V8 option... It was the car I bought the day of passing my test 25 years ago, so has a certain sentimental value :) And to keep the thread on some kind of track, the 118mm pushro...

This whole thing has been a pain from start to finish! It started when the gearbox developed an oil leak which I traced to the rear output seal. So I changed that, and it no longer left a puddle when parked. Happy days, I thought, and didn't check the level again. 9 months later I'm driving down the...

I have swapped them, but the difference is in the pedestal which they screw into. But I *think* it's going to be OK with the 118mm pushrod.

Sorry if I didn't explain it very well - these photos may show it better! Old gearbox, with a taller pedestal which the pivot pin screws into: 20230822_154100[1].jpg New gearbox with shorter pedestal, effectively moving the pivot point 20mm closer to the gearbox. 20230822_154032[1].jpg I think I've ...

Hmmm, good point. I guess that seeing as it worked well before, the best way to replicate the arm position is to fit a pivot pin 20mm shorter...

Thanks for that Chris. Thinking about it logically, the pedestal the pivot pin screws to is 20mm shorter, so a pushrod 20mm longer should be what I need. I've found a 118mm version listed for an LDV, so will see how that fits. It is just possible to change one in situ, just a bit fiddly. Or a least ...

Hello, I was hoping to pick the brains of anyone wiser than me when it comes to these gearboxes... I used to have what I now believe was a diesel 2wd R380, fitted with a V8 input shaft behind my RV8. After the gearbox seized on me (a long, painful and expensive story for me to recollect), I've ended...

OK, just to wrap this up I now have reversing lights! A bit more research showed that the 4wd version of the box have the switch on the LH side and the 2wd versions on the right, on the (different) tail casings. So I was fully expecting to need a different switch, and contacted a Sherpa specialist. ...

Thanks Chris, I must admit the R5-150 was a new one on me. Reverse is below 5th in the usual R380 position, if that helps to confirm one way or another. Also, the reverse switch is in the main body rather than the gearshift remote. It seems as though the switch isn't designed to be adjustable, as it...

Apologies for my first post being a request for help, but hopefully there may be things I can give advice on in the future! I have an early R380 box believed to be originally from a van application (J version). It was freshly reconditioned when I got it but stupidly I damaged the reverse light switc...