it's been noisy for a while and he's been putting off the day......
250,000Km
early 1985 build
oil changed at least twice in the last five and a bit years, with Redline
Matt also found a couple of loose ball bearings on the plug first time he oil changed it
and we found it was totally original, not previously rebuilt
backlash was a bit high but apart from 0.6mm of play in the pinion bearing and similar coming together between G gear and the RG synchro inner hub the box was in exceptionally good condition with very low wear on the synchro rings and needle bearings generally; one broken slider bearing (that's where the balls came from) and a worn selector fork, otherwise a good rebuildable core box, unlike the one he bought off Will, that came out of his sika, that wasn't half as good and had been rebuilt badly before, with no synchro ring at all on first gear
proves absolutely nothing apart from maybe life expectancy less than 250k km in a westy camper syncro in practice
