engine went bang in one of the fridge vans at work... the van was pretty rough anyway so decided to get a new one and sell this one when its fixed

so I bought a new one (on ebay lol)

not a bad van... side door didnt fit properly, and someone had tried to weld it and made a mess of it... needed a new clutch too.... alos the guy had "intermitent" problems starting it when it would need a jump to get it going...

fixed the side door in 30 min with a brace down the inside of it
I already knew wha was causing the starting problems... a nackered battery clamp, so changed that eash..

was planning on doing the clutch asap... but i worked just over 100 hours last week and the week before, so decided to get a loacak garage i know to do it instead.... i know the guys there and theyre pretty decent....

anyway... when i went to pick it up, they had a bucked of water sitting next to the van..... ?


turns out... the gearbox was FULL to the brim with water.... instead of oil ?

weird... am assuming it was in a flood ?

even better than that tho... we drove it back to sunderlan from notingham, and a few hundred miles around sunderland in the 2 weeks the clutch was nackered... and it was fine  

Could have been flood damage indeed - is there any other telltale flood damage?

Quote from: MarkCould have been flood damage indeed - is there any other telltale flood damage?

just some holes with oars sticking through

Ah I got my golf from Notingham as well

Going to be a full set of internal bushes for the gear box, as wont they just rot now?

lol, i think the long hours are making me more amd more dislexic.... even i can see the mistaked there


thats the thing, theres no other signs of flood damage at all.... tho the "water in fule filter" light has flasshed on a couple of times... but thats not totaly abnormal

as for the gearbox.... am too busy at the moment so going to run it and see how ti does... that one will only do ~500 miles a week anyway... will probably change the oil in a month and see how ti looks !

Sounds like you need to do what im doing today.  Extending the axle breathers

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turns out... the gearbox was FULL to the brim with water.... instead of oil ?

transmission fluid normally now days innit ??  :shrug:

I dunno... Im old school, its gearbox oil to me