Gearboxes

[Riker]

My friend mashed second gear on his valver two times until he put some gearbox from the scrapyard from R11 1.7...

My question qould be, what Renault gearbox is the one that doesn't have plastic caps on selector forks?

turbo diesel R19? What are the gearbox codes for those "more durable" then std. Valver ones?

and yes - one more question that I want to know, although I'm 99% shure I know the answer - Williams gearbox and LSD?

Some of my mates say it has one, I doubt it has...truth is?

[stan]

none of the older OE ren boxes have an LSD

[Chris H]

none of them have LSD's as standard but you can get them. They are about £900 and listed as GTT/williams

The ally selector forks have the plastic caps on them only the bronze forks don't.

[Riker]

what gboxes have the bronze forks?

just to know what to look for on a scrap yard...

[Chris H]

all of them, its only some gear depending on when they ran out on the production line.

All 5ths tend to be ally, all 1st and 2nd gears tend to be bronze, 3rd and 4th depend.

I have never ever seen a selector failure on 5th gear and that was alaguna than snapped the fork and it had 220k on it.

[Riker]

so the story about more durable gearboxes (don't know the exact codes) from gt turbo, r11 turbo and similar don't hold any ground?

[Chris H]

the GTT boxes are still JB3's same as the 16V's.

But the JB1's (1.4's) tend to last longer than the 16V boxes.

[Neal]

I personally reckon that's only because being mated to 1.4s, they never see the kind of hammering that the 16Vs receive...

[Chris H]

depends on who owned the 1.4. I see hundreds on 17's that do burnouts all the time like right little chavs.

Theres been plenty of 16V's that have done 50k+ on used 1.4 boxes now.