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Updates on the green machine - for anyone interested.

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Park it in a high theft area.
 

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That's bad news mate , what do they have to do to fix this.

You might have to go media option here.

It's a nonsense situation this mate.

I feel for you, must be going f##king nuts over this.

Cheers.
 

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Whats the trans doing exactly? Refresh my memory....
 

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Thanks, Mike. Editing a letter as we speak!

Nuts is an understatement! Got the phone call at 5 pm saying.. we've finally put it all back together and just got it back from the test drive to find that we've rectified none of the faults.

I replied - I beg your pardon?
 

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Thanks, Mike. Editing a letter as we speak!

Nuts is an understatement! Got the phone call at 5 pm saying.. we've finally put it all back together and just got it back from the test drive to find that we've rectified none of the faults.

I replied - I beg your pardon?

Wow.........
 

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Whats the trans doing exactly? Refresh my memory....

Nothing violent, which is part of the problem - apparently makes the faults difficult to locate. But then it's not just the trans either. They replaced the harmonic balancer to fix a high pitched whine under load - didn't work.

The trans is doing the normal clunking into gears - but on steroids, also the amount of gear chatter in neutral is insane. I get locked out of gears, particularly first and reverse - so only a problem when it's important! Grinds its way into each and every gear (although this seems to have been reduced with the new gearbox - haven't driven it much yet - will take it out for a better evaluation tomorrow). Although I did notice that it is now prone to jumping OUT of gear whilst driving - super. Also getting loud knocks and jolts from the diff when on and off throttle - more than is natural. It's like the trans has adopted the driveline backlash from a kenworth.

There's a bunch of issues - but they're apparently hard to pinpoint as they CAN be quite subtle - though when I'm driving it all the time, they're not ALWAYS subtle!
 

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I keep thinking that maybe I'm just making it all up and there's really nothing wrong with it, as each time I get it back, they tell me it's fixed (except for this time) but then when I take it back I'm told, no, you're not making it up - it's worse!
 
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