Right I now can't decide what to do, I know I'm going to get the gearbox off one way or another to split it, and I was just going to buy a new Xman uprated clutch and a new dmf as I don't really drive the car hard and the smf is abit loud. I'm currently running a cg dual clutch with the smf and I have to say it's coped well, apart from when I got the lsd fitted it slipped but finally adjusted itself and has been perfect ever since (about 3/4k) so do I leave my current one in and risk it slipping again, buy a new cg clutch plate at £300odd or buy a uprated clutch for £250 plus a new dmf or buy his already uprated dmf and clutch for £530 lol

Thanks for all the advice already from everyone I do appreciate it

I pulled the complete tower itself out, remove the indent from the side of the box and then 2 bolts to lift the entire thing out.

I looked at just removing the counter weight arm and looked fiddly and I was going to have to remove it anyway to strip the box down to fit the LSD and strengthen the selectors so made sense to pull it.

Haha well after finding out its not just the drain plugs causing the weeping in glad I didn't sell it

You'll love the diff Alex! What clutch you going for?

 

 

 

I've got an Xman one that's been sat here for months ready to fit. However... I'm going to be looking into doing a BKD head conversion and a bigger turbo again in the near future, so I'm tempted to just not bother fitting it at all and sell it, as there's still nothing wrong with mine and I'd need a heftier clutch for the future setup! Whether fitting an LSD would make a difference and possibly cause it to slip I don't know. However, I've done some hefty starts in it with warm tarmac and it's just gripped with no slipping at all.

unbolt front end, remove driveshafts loosen front arm bolts, loosen exhaust, engine crane remove all engine mounts and drag the whole motor and box out as a one takes about 1.5hrs piece of ****

 

makes removing gearbox easy, makes changing cambelt easy, makes fitting a new turbo easy 

Granted if it needs a clutch, flywheel, turbo and cambelt, go for it.

But it doesn't, so don't