[coupeman]

Hi guys was just wondering, will the diesel gearbox (220d bubble or 420 gsdi etc) fit the T16 turbo engine unit?

Obviously a few mods required, its just I keep blowing boxes, 2 in a year, granted they are the NASP box, and not the turbo box with the LSD which are very rare, so cannot seem to find one. If I can they are silly money.

Looking at the casing they are virtually the same and would be interested to see if it did as it would be a lot stronger on the car.

Cheers,

Adam

[Smithy]

You can but the ratios will be very wrong.

If you can try to find a broken turbo box with knackered bearings and replace them with steel caged bearings

I have a NASP box on mine at the moment as I didn't have a replacement turbo box at the time, this has been replaced with steel cage bearings and touch wood has been fine.

Tom the membership secretary on here has written a very good application which I haven't installed yet, but Tom has installed it here. The app shows you the difference in gear ratios.

http://www.rover-coupe.com/rcoc/index.p ... &Itemid=27

[wellsm]

I just caught up with this post so it may be a bit late but I have a 220 turbo gearbox which came out of my 220 gtit. It doesn't stay in 5th gear and I don't know what the damage is as I replaced with a rebuilt one I bought from a member of Rovertech.

PM me if interested - it will only go for scrap otherwise as I am about to lose teh field where I keep my shed full of car stuff.

I am a few miles south of Oxford on the A34

Cheers, Mark

[E_T_V]

If it has a working torsen diff this is worth saving.

[wellsm]

Is there any way to tell what the diff is from the outside, I'm not tecchie enough to take it apart!

[E_T_V]

Remove the driveshafts and look through the differential.

If there is a bar across the diameter then that is an open diff.

If there is a little hole in the centre of a big washer in the middle then that is a type A diff.

If there is nothing at all in there then it is a type B diff.

It should be a type A one.

[mach1rob]

HTH

Open


Type A & B

[wellsm]

Thanks for that info people - I'll get the tools out at the weekend then!