Wtf is wrong with my Vts

21st April 2010, 10:15

Hi , I changed the gearbox on my Vts on Monday , yesterday I took it for a test drive and it was fine for about 10 miles , so I thought id try and test the car at high speed so I went on the motorway and was doing 70mph , after about 5 miles I felt a judder through the steering wheel and thought nothing much of it. After a couple of minutes this judder had become so strong I thought I had a flat tyre so i pulled over on the hard shoulder. When I got out there tyres weree fine so I looked under the bonnet and my gearbox oil was pouring out. So i got it towed back home and jacked it up , but there was no evidence of anything wrong, the drain plugs were in the gearbox , the driveshafts were secure in the gearbox and the car drives .... does anybody have any ideas whatsoever..... the only possible thing I could think of is the pins that secure the bearing into the housing on the drivers side driveshaft are missing. Does anybody have any ideas ??

21st April 2010, 11:50

What gearbox did you fit and what driveshafts did you use?

Did you have the two nuts and bolts on the bearing carrier secured?

21st April 2010, 11:54

a vts gearbox and the orignal driveshafts that were on it and no im trying to get some bolts top try and secure the bearing

21st April 2010, 11:57

If you mean you havnt got any bearing carrier bolts in at the moment, then its probably that then, the shaft just slid out a lil bit draining the oil, untill there was none left which makes it look like nothings wrong. Get some in and should be job done