Bonjour,
Since a couple of weeks I have noticed a slight grinding noise when shifting in second and forth gear and a significant noise when shifting in reverse. Yesterday I had the shifter gate removed and found quite some linkage freeplay which I will fix together with a local machine shop during winter period. I removed also the centering device of the shifter box and shifting in second and forth is so much better and easier now (no noise from second and forth gear anymore).
BUT what remains is the grinding noise (gear teeth touching but not engaging) when putting in reverse. Since the shifter gate is removed I assume that the reverse noise is not related to the shifter freeplay (compensated by longer shift movement), right?
There is no reverse noise when gearbox is cold and only appears after some minutes of driving. When engine is off I cannot always get reverse in (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't). I changed some month ago the gearbox oil to RED LINE NS. Could this had some influence?
Very much appreciate any advice you might have.
Brgds
Hartwig
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