GEARBOX DEAD help pleaaase !!!

capin

capin

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Hi everybody!
Mi first post. not very good circumstances.
I have 1.4 tdi 2002
The gearbox specialist took it apart and confirmed what i was feeling for a few months. Its dead. I need a new one.
Obviously, id like to avoid buying brand new one.
Since there are quite few A2 in here in Prague it also makes no sense to be looking for some good older A2 gearbox. People laugh. :)
My question: Is there an identical gearbox in some other car from VW group
that i can put in without any modification? Gearbox from a car that is more common ( golf, octavia, A3, polo...?) Does anybody have a experience with the same thing?
Im looking for a simple straightforward solution if possible..(no 6 gears or some other experiments..)

Thanks a lot !!
Jan
 
You can possibly fit the EWQ or GPK gearbox from the 2003/04 Polo, but this is almost as rare as the A2 version!

Anything else will require modification of the mating surfaces between engine and gearbox, not a small job.

Cheers,

Mike
 
Reconditioned

You could always get your box reconditioned - here in the UK you get 12 months warranty on the whole box after reconditioning as they have to change anything that is warn or broken.

I had to have ours reconditioned as the syncro mesh for 4th gear broke (warn to much) and would not select gears

All caused by a small and visually insignificant nylon/plastic bush that broke and fell out causing play in the linkage at the gearbox end and over time this caused the syncro to ware and fail.

Audi wanted £2500 fitted - New Box and Clutch
Independant £1000 fitted - Reconditioned Box - Clutch was inspected and was OK no need to replace.

Not cheap considering the bush only costs 60p and is a 10min job to change.
 
Its done !

Thanks a lot for your info!
As i said, i took the gearbox out of the car and brought it to a gearbox specialist.
Its very funny. Its a guy in a garage with a open gearboxes and cogs all around the place. He perfectly repaired my friends Polo.

He opened it and told me exactly what happened to it.
In short some bearing on the top broke (probably quite long time ago) and all the little balls fell inside. The way it broke it allowed water to enter the gearbox! So no more oil bath but instead nasty water-oil mix inside.
The little balls got near the fifth gear cogs and messed up things around there.
All the internals were worn out because of the friction from the absence of oil.

He checked some charts and found out that the actual cogs and bearings from inside of gearbox are identical to those in OCTAVIA 1.9 TDI !
Although I had some doubts, i let him do it since he obviously knows what hes doing and that solution was the cheapest of all.
He got older octavia gearbox used all the parts apart from bearings, which he bought new.
I just came home with it. It works perfectly!
Gearbox work was 650 eur
plus 160 eur for guy to who put it out and back in, changed oil etc...
cool.

cheers

jan
 
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