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Thread: Will running gear from a GU fit in a GQ?

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    Yep, tb45 and 48 will need engineering, Chuck in a TB42E and turbo the buggah


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    That makes a lot of sense, Clunk. No timing belt, no carby to run out of fuel on a steep hill, a stronger gear box, and a bit of grunt.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
    Just thinking of a plan of action. The RB30 needs some work and the gearbox is noisey, so I was looking at buying a wrecked U and swapping over the running gear.
    In what way the gearbox's noisy??!!

    I think swapping over GU engine and bit into a GQ is a pretty big project.

    Why not simply buy a running GU instead?
    Or are you a sucker for the aesthetic beauty of the GQ as I am?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
    That makes a lot of sense, Clunk. No timing belt, no carby to run out of fuel on a steep hill, a stronger gear box, and a bit of grunt.
    Whack a hair dryer on the RB30 mate and she'll move alright.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mudski View Post
    Whack a hair dryer on the RB30 mate and she'll move alright.
    I haven't got an issue with the power of the guinea pig, just sick of worrying about a problem with the crank and timing belt set up. It has been stuffed up by a mechanic who must have used a rattle gun to torque the crankshaft bolt instead of using a torque wrench. I have driven it wondering when it will let go. I had a good mechanic check it out yesterday and he reckons run it for a couple of years as is and deal with it then. It seems I was lucky enough to clamp the stripped plate into the chewed out groove. It ain't pretty but it has survived so far.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dom14 View Post
    In what way the gearbox's noisy??!!

    I think swapping over GU engine and bit into a GQ is a pretty big project.

    Why not simply buy a running GU instead?
    Or are you a sucker for the aesthetic beauty of the GQ as I am?
    A bearing in the cluster (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th) is whining pretty badly. Change into 4th and the silence is deafening.

    When I changed out the gear oil there was a fair bit of metal stuck to the magnet.

    I have another gearbox still sitting at a mates place, waiting for him to check out what has let go.

    Two gearboxes failing in 20000 ks of each other is BS! Would love to upgrade to the larger box.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
    A bearing in the cluster (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th) is whining pretty badly. Change into 4th and the silence is deafening.

    When I changed out the gear oil there was a fair bit of metal stuck to the magnet.

    I have another gearbox still sitting at a mates place, waiting for him to check out what has let go.

    Two gearboxes failing in 20000 ks of each other is BS! Would love to upgrade to the larger box.
    Mate, that makes no sense. Good running RB30 gearboxes go for peanuts.
    I could've bought a good one from a local known bloke for $150 & I didn't 'cos mine's running fine.
    From what I know you don't go around seeking mud holes and sand dunes to thrash the gearbox and diff around.
    And what I've heard so far, your diff has never failed. Mine did in 2014.
    Dunno, but may be mine was rebuilt by the previous bloke, but I don't think RB30 gearbox is anywhere near
    as bad many says.
    Something's not right with what's happening to you.
    Either some other area of the drivetrain is putting stress on the gearbox or both times for some weird reason you ended
    up with bad ones.
    Only way you gonna get a larger box is obviously by going for a TB42/45/48.

    From what I've heard, it's the synchros in gearbox that fail, but not sure as I've never opened up a gearbox, yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mudnut View Post
    I haven't got an issue with the power of the guinea pig, just sick of worrying about a problem with the crank and timing belt set up. It has been stuffed up by a mechanic who must have used a rattle gun to torque the crankshaft bolt instead of using a torque wrench. I have driven it wondering when it will let go. I had a good mechanic check it out yesterday and he reckons run it for a couple of years as is and deal with it then. It seems I was lucky enough to clamp the stripped plate into the chewed out groove. It ain't pretty but it has survived so far.
    I've never used a torque wrench on a crank bolt, I doubt most mechanics do.
    Most likely the mechanic did a half hearted job when it came to tightening it.

    BTW @mudnut I must tell you that I've undone and tightened the crank bolt somewhere between 10-15 times in last six years, no exaggeration. I only started to be careful with rechecking it last couple of years after a discussion in the other forum about RD28 crank bolt coming loose and guy's replacing it with a new one. Even though I didn't go that far, I give it a quite a tightening with a long breaker bar.
    I can't remember why I had to undo it that many times, but half of that would be doing it to check something rather than fixing anything.
    Last edited by dom14; 15th November 2017 at 08:39 PM.
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