Hi all, driving today and went to drop down into 3rd gear and BANG! Nomore 3rd gear and lots of rattling, now i need to figure out what to do for the best, bearing in mind i am currently skint!!

 

No matter which way you approach it the news isn't good. The box will have to come out and be stripped down. When API rebuilt mine I came away with a £1200 bill.

 

for that much u might look at an sti box, at least its a little stronger.

 

Not sure if it will help you - I have a spare 754 box here already stripped to be rebuilt - I'm after £80 for it?
(I could easily get it to Cambridge for you to collect from there)

Cheers,
Paul

 

Pointless exercise, fit another box for a couple of hundred quid and learn to be more mechanically sympathetic (depending on how much torque you're running).

If you're running over 350lbft spend the figure mentioned above on a 6 speed rather than a 5 speed that'll crap it's pants again

 

Find a box of the same code / ratios and fit .

No point spending thousands rebuilding a box as even then with an updated gear they still go pop

As said , 3rd is the weak gear as its shares 4th as well

 

Thanks for the advice guys, I have sourced an sti box and diff. which I'm told has been checked blah blah blah so fingers crossed its all fine, will find out on Friday when it goes in.

 

This is so weird......recently blew the 3rd gear on my P1 TY54 box....did last a few years though......put my old standard my98 ty52 box bang 3rd gear gone again yesterday! just tossing up whether to go 6 speed or dog box route they are roughly the same price.........If you are putting another box in just go easy on it, I didn't I never do if I get the chance! so I will put something stronger in. Running a td05 18g by the way at about 20psi.......