20Det Manual Box Bearings

[QVRTHS]

Hi team

Can someone help me out, one of the bearings in my box is shot, hoping it's the input shaft..

The way I see it I've got 3 options.

1) buy a new box

2) rebuild this one

3) exchange this one for a new box

Can I please grab some insight as to which I should go about it?

Does anyone know anyone with a half decent box for sale? (Cheaper the better, can be a 30e box for all I care asking as it goes straight in)

Does anyone know anyone that can rebuild it for me (I'm lazy and frankly don't have the time)

Does anyone know a reco shop that would exchange?

Cheers team

[89CAL]

By far the cheapest thing would be to buy a second hand rb20det box. If you have the money go an rb25det box conversion

[sweefu]

Second hand gearboxes can be touch and go, I've bought some crappy second hand gearboxes. It's a plus if you can drive the car before buying it (to see what the box is like), although this is uncommon and would likely result in a higher price.
Rebuilding the gearbox, as mention above, is hardly worth it. Depending on the shop you'd be up for around ~$1k (give or take) plus++ for bearings, and chances are a gearbox of that age has some average dog teeth and a few other problems which would need fixing too, and you might end up spending $1500 or so on an old RB20 gearbox.

If you can pull the housings off the gearbox and check the gears and dog teeth, then it might be worthwhile having only bearings done. You might save a bit of cash on labour if you can pull the box down yourself too.

Otherwise you'd be better off going with an RB25DET gearbox, although you still face the problem of buying an old (although not as old as RB20), used gearbox.

Or just go all out and buy a brand new RB25DET gearbox for ~$2300

I've bought a few gearboxes lately (3 in the last few months) and out of the 4 only one of them has been worth using, and it still needed some repairs to reverse gears. This is bad luck, but demonstrates how things can go with old/used gearboxes.