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  1. 20th August 2009, 15:01 #1471
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    3rd gear blowups - Another one reported

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    whats happened nordie
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  3. 20th August 2009, 20:13 #1473
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    Nah. Just added bluebye to the list...

    13 now.
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  4. 21st August 2009, 08:39 #1474
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    Is there any particular model years that do it? and what actually happens?

    Young toddy has about 104000 miles on his one with missing a beat.
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    Looks like the problem years are 98-2007.
    3rd gear shatters and goes for a walk inside the engine.

    My theory is they overdid the hardening to fix the whiney 3rd problem on the 97/98 and made the gear too brittle.

    It's in use in 3rd/4th/5th.

    The Aussies seem to have problems sooner (<30000km) than the rest of the world (>40000km).

    They changed the part number for 3rd in 98 and again in 2008.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post
    Looks like the problem years are 98-2007.
    3rd gear shatters and goes for a walk inside the engine.

    My theory is they overdid the hardening to fix the whiney 3rd problem on the 97/98 and made the gear too brittle.

    It's in use in 3rd/4th/5th.

    The Aussies seem to have problems sooner (<30000km) than the rest of the world (>40000km).

    They changed the part number for 3rd in 98 and again in 2008.
    I'm pretty confident the whiny 3rd was not a result of the lack of hardening but poorly shaped gears. Still there was obviously a change in the gear of some description and that change is likely to be the issue.

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    i better sell mine before 40k then...
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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post
    The Aussies seem to have problems sooner (<30000km) than the rest of the world (>40000km).
    Higher operating temperature due to climate causing heat fatigue sooner?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddieb View Post
    Higher operating temperature due to climate causing heat fatigue sooner?
    Nah .. thar just fat bastids
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  11. 25th August 2009, 07:24 #1481
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    NordieBoy (NZ) 2001 60,000km
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    Magnetic Sump Bungs

    I really like them...

    Lookie what it caught...

    It's been floating around in there for at least the 6 months I've had this engine. The day we installed it we checked the NSU screws and one was missing and we couldn't find it with a telescoping magnet thingy...

    No other metallic particulates at all...
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  13. 28th August 2009, 15:36 #1483
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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post

    Lookie what it caught...
    I had the same thing when my NLS went walk about found an extra screw with the magprobe probably from an earlier fix years before I bought it...



    (mine was called Neutral Light Switch NLS )
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  14. 28th August 2009, 17:11 #1484
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    Mine is called the Neutral Sender Unit...

    Yours must be foreign
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  15. 28th August 2009, 18:44 #1485
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    Quote Originally Posted by NordieBoy View Post
    I really like them...

    Lookie what it caught......
    It's good you caught that screw before it caused an expensive noise! That reminds me to PM you for a magnet.
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