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ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:43 pm
by 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
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:03 am
by 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
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:01 pm
by 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
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:22 pm
by E_T_V
If it has a working torsen diff this is worth saving.
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:34 pm
by wellsm
Is there any way to tell what the diff is from the outside, I'm not tecchie enough to take it apart!
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:28 pm
by 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.
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 7:11 pm
by mach1rob
HTH
Open
Type A & B
Re: ROVER COUPE TURBO GEARBOX
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:41 pm
by wellsm
Thanks for that info people - I'll get the tools out at the weekend then!