Thanks for the intro Les,
So the story starts with me haggling the seller down $6,000 and doing something I never thought I would do, buy a car over the phone/internet, but these kind of actions seem necessary to get your hands on a syncro. The car was in cairns so I flew up, did the deal in the airport car park and started driving south (3,200kms). The first problem hit 10kms from wallgett. I accelerated to get past a slow moving harvester and smoke starts to bellow from the back of the car. I pulled over to find that when the muffler was replaced (a week before pick up) the tech had put the lhr engine mount bolt straight into the oil filter and it took a couple of thousand k's to rub through. After a lift to town, hardship trying to find a oil filter that would fit and taxi ride back to the syncro I was soon on my way. The next issue came about 200kms out of dubbo. Lots of noise from the rear end and I found the also new lhr outer cv loose. All the
grease leaked out and one bolt was broken. With no tools I kept driving to Dubbo. Needless to say the noise at this stage was horrendous. I was down to 5kmh and found a garage that would help. With no part available we pulled out the old joint and were horrified to find it was fitted back to front and had silicone on the mating surfaces! We cleaned it replaced the 6 balls with better second hand ones and packed it with a heavy fuchs grease. She coasted silently all the way to Melbourne. I now have her up on stands, with a new cv joint going in on the weekend with a set of a/t tyres. If you are interested it is a 5/92 (one of the last) Build, rear diff lock full camper. As I write the previous owner still has the car listed on the Drive.com site so have a look.
Greg Esposito.
--- On Tue, 17/11/09, Les Harris <leslieharris@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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