colin_ross Posted March 25, 2005 Posted March 25, 2005 Following my recent gearbox problems I'd just like to pass my thanks on to all the guys at Greersport. Bill, Colin and the rest of the team really bust their a$$e$ to get me back on the road and at a price even an impoverished Subaru owner could afford. If you need any work done give these guys a shout, simple as. PS2
colin_ross Posted March 25, 2005 Author Posted March 25, 2005 Well...... When I bought my car last year it had an annoying snick when selecting fifth gear, nothing major but you knew it wasn't doing the car any favours. If you double clutched it was fine so I reckoned it would be the syncro. I put it into Greersport and asked them to replace it, which they did and the problem went away. For a while.. I only use the car at weekend so hadn't racked up many miles on it when the problem started to come back, again if you double clutched it was ok. Kept meaning to go back to Bill for some advice but then the SIDC track day at Knockhill came up and I thought it'd be rude not to take the car out for a spin (or 2). Because of the gearing on my car I had to use 5th on the Railway straight and the start/finish straight but as I was in a bit of a rush I wasn't double clutching. The snick got worse and worse until the point it was showing up on the knocklink but it kept going. It was only when I went to reverse out of my parking space for another session I realised that I'd lost reverse and 5th was none too clever either. Thought it was time to give Bill a call. I explained what'd happened and he said to bring it down and he'd have a look. Bit of a mess really. Shattered selector fork, scored syncro cone, ground syncro hub assembley. Bill split the box, replaced some of the parts free of charge, sorced what he didn't have and refitted it at a much reduced labour charge. Long story short, he stood by his earlier work and didn't shrug his sholders and say tough luck pal. Oh and he got it all together in time for the MMR.
ANDYJDMSTI Posted March 25, 2005 Posted March 25, 2005 nice one!!!!! glad to hear the rocket is back on the road
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