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MQ gearbox help needed asap
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:06 am
by kegz
gday fellas, ive jusy baught a mq shorty and the fella told me the gearbox stopped working when he was rcking it of a rock going from 1st to reverse. now the selector is stuck in the nutaral are but is stuck in (i think) 1st, selector will not go into any gear. any help much appreciated
cheers
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 11:10 am
by kegz
sorry i forgot it is a 4 speed L28.
Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 1:08 pm
by maccasMQ
this happened to me b4, and it ended up being the clutch cylinder where the fluid is was stuffed, 70 bucks later it was fixed. i had to drive thru towns and traffic lights with no clutch! yeh it was stuck in neutral or some gear, but then came unstuck
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 3:48 pm
by kegz
thanks for the reply but its a gearbox prob because if i clutch it it stopps drive and when u press the clutch you see the fork moving cheers
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 9:24 pm
by kegz
i pulled the top of the box and the selector closest to the engine is jammed and cant get it sto slide back or farward any ideas??
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:09 am
by V8Patrol
1/
Make damn sure the clutch is IN and the transfer is in NEUTRAL & HANDBRAKE IS OFF
( it wont hurt to drop the front & rear drive shafts off either to make doubly sure that the box is not being 'loaded' )
2/
get ya self a bit of 1/2inch copper pipe about 8"long...... use it as a drift
3/
grab a hammer and TAP the selector fork GENTLY using the copper pipe as a drift.
4/
if it frees up ya laughing.......
5/
if it dont move ............
guess who's got a gearbox pull to do

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Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 7:18 am
by kegz
thanks heaps ill give this ago tonight.
Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 1:13 pm
by Chook350
i have had similar probs with mine in the past, the roll pin that holds the selector to the shaft broke, so i was stuck in third. the last box i killed it seized the mainshaft to the input shaft.