What have you been doing today?

[Mottie]

Can't be that difficult, with hoist, and a hydraulic transmission jack.

Luxury! I’m doing it on the floor. It is honestly the heaviest gearbox I’ve ever lifted. FWD gearbox too so have to wiggle it around the crossmember as well as lifting and pushing the bastid. Not touching the clutch as that’s fine, only done 44,000 too. It’s the concentric slave cylinder that’s burst so just changing that. A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

 

[fillyboy]

A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

Wow.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Luxury! I’m doing it on the floor. It is honestly the heaviest gearbox I’ve ever lifted. FWD gearbox too so have to wiggle it around the crossmember as well as lifting and pushing the bastid. Not touching the clutch as that’s fine, only done 44,000 too. It’s the concentric slave cylinder that’s burst so just changing that. A complete clutch kit with DMF is over £700.

That clutch slave is the one job I'm dreading on mine, when it eventually fails. There use to be a local guy, who had a reputation of being so well practised in doing them, he could turn them round in 3hours, working on his back at that. He retired from doing them a while back, he now specialises in DAF HGV's

Many suggest that the easy way, is to drop the sub-frame. Others, suggest dropping it just part way.

The £700 is similar to the cost of mine.