Jon, yes mate got that, this broken bearing is midway along the shaft with IIRC third gear? The split bearing is the one that goes into the intermediate plate right? Frank, I am glad you can see what I am getting at (even though I am not sure myself!) If the gear was seized permanently then there would be drive the moment I started the engine as if I had left the lever in gear, but of course this did not happen, I did have neutral and the lever moved through the normal positions but regardless of what position there was (eventually) no drive just the loud grating noise, this led me to think if the gear was partially seized and 'dragging' the synchromesh would be unable to stop the gear spinning and of course trying to drag another gear into play hence the rubber wall feeling?
I am just having a lot of difficulty getting my head around the amount of grinding noise and no drive, I was expecting a load of 'bits and pieces' lying in the bottom of the box but nothing!
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I am just having a lot of difficulty getting my head around the amount of grinding noise and no drive, I was expecting a load of 'bits and pieces' lying in the bottom of the box but nothing!
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