So my gearbox is kaput on my diesel pick up, input shaft bearings I think anyway it's done 160k so had a good innings). I have a spare diesel gearbox which I took apart as the bevel gears in the diff had fallen down (arse!). On reassembly of said gearbox I obviously didn't put the reverse selector lever back in the corrct place as when using reverse gear the truck just didn't pull properly and only just worked. It felt much like a slipping clutch.

Now, my quandry is, Do I tackle the reverse gear problem? Whilst I am a bit of a have a go hero with mot things mechanical I'm loathed to take it apart without some sort of instruction book (Haynes manual doesn't cover it).

Anyone got a felicia gearbox manual?

 

The other option I am considering is getting another gearbox and swapping them over. Now from last time I rang about diesel felicia spare most yards had petrol cars but no diesels. If I were to get a petrol gearbox would I make the truck undriveable? I have researched final drives and realise there is a diffference, but what actual driving experience would this give me? My commute to work is solely on B roads and country lanes and I do very little motorway driving. Would the addition of say a 1.6 gearbox make my truck more 'sporty' for the types of roads I drive on?

I have a diesel box here mate, we did fit a 1.6 box to a local taxi felly, and it was revving it's tits off on the m'way