R32 V.spec Gearbox Recondition

[MANWHOR3]

r + r means remove and refit.

I assume he took the box out, took it to the box mob with the parts and got them to rebuild it for 450.

[saliya]

Saliya, could you get me prices on stuff for my gb. It seems your Nissan dealer is a fair bit cheaper than mine.

I have the r33 series 1 box. I need a complete bearing set, but wouldnt mind a price on parts required to rebuild the whole box too (like complete syncro set, gaskets, and any other bearings/seals ive missed) Only thing i dont need is the gears themselves...

Your help would be much appreciated

Hi,

I've posted the details for the folks that I used higher in the thread; North Shore Mitsubishi, Nissan

Spares dept. They don't know me from a bar of soap, but they at least can get stuff for my import.

They are very prompt and do exactly what they say they will. I've used them since I bought my first

GTR about 4 years ago. Give them your VIN. You definitely want original (i.e. Nissan) synchros,

gaskets and seals.

Synchros are probably about $125RRP each; don't know how many gaskets on that box but on mine

the gaskets + seal were about $20-25 all up. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you

should not need synchros for 1st or 5th gears (of course, having said that, now your gearbox

place will call me a liar ); but your price of $550 for 5 synchros is not really a horrible price.

Bearings you should be able to get matched substantially cheaper from someone like CNC;

have your gearbox place pull the bearings from your old box, advise you which ones to replace,

then give you a price for those bearings to be replaced. It goes without saying that you need to have

some kind of trust relationship in place with your gearbox place first (that is, you need to be

able to trust them to 1) do a good job and 2) tell you the truth about what stuff you need.

I got aftermarket bearings; if I'd gotten Nissan bearings it would have been a lot more expensive.

Unfortunately I paid a premium for those bearings (they should have been around the $200 mark)

because some people like to go out and buy 50 bearing sets, then wait for the supply to dry up so

they can charge what they like. Supply and demand

You said - R+R - $0 - do you mean it cost you nothing to pull it down and put it back in.. not quite sure what you mean..

$450 - was that pulling it all apart, putting in new synchros & re-pressing the bearings??

Links,

Cost me nothing to remove and replace it; that's just getting it out of the car then putting it back in.

Took about 2 hours to remove and about the same to put back (remember, I'm no expert, and by

'remove and replace' I mean the gearbox plus all the other crap that has to come out first/go in after )

Yes, the $450 was labour to pull the box down, clean all the bits, examine all the bits, then reassemble

with the new bearings and synchros. The disassembly took about 2 hours, what with me interrupting

and taking pictures all the time. I didn't see the reassembly. But I think the charges were very fair.

Regards,

Saliya

Edited June 8, 2006 by saliya

[GTR1993]

this is pretty good im going to go see if i can get parts for my R32 gtr box soon, i got to get mine rebuilt its whiny as.

[T04GTR]

only series 3 33gtr has all the late stuff in it, the rest are the same

[GTR1993]

For your interest i went to nissan here and syncros etc are all avalible ex melbourne so you can get them over night...

[Godzilla32]

The remove and replace was done by himself so it was free labour. I've got my R32 GTR box in about a million pieces now. Dunno why i did it cuz it wasent noisy i just wanted to make sure it was all in good shape. Yes crazy and stupid both come to mind!