No longer need this, I had swapped it out, as the car was making a grinding noise. Turned out to be a front wheel bearing in the end and not the gearbox (the wheel bearing when first checked didn't show any signs of play and was not noisy when rotated by hand and it was only a few weeks later when it completely collapsed that I realised that it was the wheel bearing that was grinding and not the box), so as far as I am aware the box is fully functional. It has covered a lot of miles (160k), but the box was perfectly smooth in use, all gears engaged well and the car drove fine with it fitted, (ignoring the grinding noise caused by the wheel bearing). It also explains why I could feel no play in the driveshaft flanges or hear any nasty noises when turning the flanges by hand.


collection only from chipping norton as I don't have time to sort posting it at the mo. It is fairly compact, I picked up my replacement box using my mx5!

£75 ono

Edited 9 February, 201412 yr by g40jon

What code is the box please? The GT box that is.

Edited 11 December, 201312 yr by c.w.pritchard

no idea. I will check on friday, it'll be one of two codes! I didn't pay any attention when removing it, as I have fitted a 1 litre 4 speed box to my gt instead.

can't seem to find the code but the box (getting too dark to see properly and not really sure where to look!) came off an early 91 gt breadie and was its original box

Edited 11 December, 201312 yr by g40jon

Should be AHD or CEH

just looked at the boot sticker and it is an ahd code.

Edited 11 December, 201312 yr by g40jon

Is it worth taking as a refurb which I will try and do myself?

I don't know is the truth. As you can see there is a fair amount of oil on the casing, It is gearbox oil. My suspicion is that the box has got low on oil and that has caused the diff bearings to fail. The gears themselves are fine. It went up and down through the gears without issue. It has only been doing it for a short while according to the previous owner (martinb off here) You may well find the box might be ok after some fresh oil. Worst case scenario is that the diff bearings are shot. This would leave a couple of options

1. replace the bearings

2. use the gears in a different box which has a good diff.

I don't have time to be messing around with it myself, so I thought it was worth seeing if anyone would want it seing as it is a close ratio gt box (sooner or later they are going to start getting hard to obtain) and it seems a waste to send it to the scrapper, which is where it will wind up if no-one wants it.

I wouldn't mind taking the gearbox but I am in South Wales and Christmas is getting in the way of my project. For £20 I'm willing to work on it. Could we do some negotiating about collecting it after the holidays?

i need it out of the way tbh. give me a pm when you are ready and if i still have it, then we can sort something out

I can't do anything before Christmas. Will be driving to London mid Januaryish. I know it's no help to you but it's too far for a one off trip. Which part of Oxfordshire are you from? Post code please.

Chipping norton, as previously stated and not really on route to london, as I expect you will be going along the m4?

Update: Well after swapping the gearbox out on my polo gt, the grinding noise didn't go away and it turned out a front wheel bearing failed and that was the grinding noise I could hear, so I am fairly certain that the gt box is fine. Sold my car now, so don't really need this as it won't be much use as a spare for my g40 due to the ratios being too close. It will need fresh oil as I drained the old oil out. Any inspection of it welcome.